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Sunsets, Turtles & Fishing.
This is a top pick! ... steamy atmosphere of the wet, we packed up and headed off down the coast on our return trip South. Our first stop was 80 mile beach for a lovely 3 days of fishing, reading, beach walks and relaxing. Some of the best sunsets we have ever experienced lit up ...
Day 9: On the road again...
... away without further ado and headed onto our stay for the night (at a rather lush campsite - with showers, I might add!) at 80 Mile Beach which, as you may suspect, is allegedly 80 miles long! Cunning! (everything in Australia seems to be exactly what it ...
Driving......
... by lunchtime tomorrow, which is great. We drove 245Km from Port Hedland this afternoon and stopped for the night at a campground on 80 mile beach. We also passed two dead camels on the way, which whilst gruesome, was also kind of exciting as we are ...
80 Mile Beach
On our way to Broome we stopped at 80 mile beach to have a look - there was a whole lot of beach and not much ...
Day SIXTY ONE
... a definite southerly direction it feels like we’re heading home. Today we got away early and drove the 4hrs south to 80 Mile Beach. The caravan park is a sand dune away from an enormously long white sandy beach. We arrived just after high tide so ...
80 Mile Beach - Fishing.
Between Broome and Port Hedland is one of the longest beaches in the world, the 80 mile beach. We stopped here for the night to again try our luck at fishing, this time finally, success. Avan managed to hook and land three nice sized threadfin salmon, ...
Sand, as far as the eye can see...
... wheel rims, but I was sticking close to a tow truck that was travelling the road in front of us - any problems and I'd've hit the horn straight away! 365km to get to Broome - here we come! 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park Port Headland 6721 (08)9176 ...
Sun, Sand and Shells - 80 Mile Beach
... ’t that much volume in them to really provide the additional width and traction that soft sand requires. At the 80 Mile Beach entrance, there’s a sign announcing that there is no de-bogging equipment available, so we’d have had to ...
80 Mile Beach
... 80 mile beach. Der erste Camping war geschlossen, also mussten wir noch etwas weiterfahren und haben uns auf dem 80 mile beach caravan park niedergelassen. Schoener Platz rundum mit Palmen und viel Schatten. Der Strand mit weissem Sand, vieler ...
Fishing 'N shells
Today we're off to 80 mile beach Caravan Park. We thought the road into Pardoo Station was bad lol the road into the 80 mile beach caravan park was 1000 times worse, we were travelling between 5 & 20 kph depending on the surface :o) Gotta love the ...
No-one mentioned rain!
... out of Karijini, saying goodbyes to the gorges for the final time. The rest of afternoon was pretty much non-stop driving on to 80 Mile Beach (do you want to guess why it's called that?;-), where we set up for for our final night of camping. The camp ...
80 mile beach via Port Headland
Port Headland? Barren wilderness of red earth and Iron industry. God bless everyone who lives there, I just couldn't ...
Seaside Paradise
... , already a showpiece for native species, and farewelled it the previous Friday. Soon afterwards we turned left towards the Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park along 10km of dust and corrugated red dirt road. We managed to acquire the last powered site ...
West Coast Tour Day 10
After a morning stroll on the beach, we packed up and hit the road for Broome. Since we were such a great group, Pete asked us to do something nice for one another. He passed out some colored paper and asked us to fold it and print our names on the ...
The tides are turning
... other travellers. Grrr kids. After 360km of the highway, we turned right onto a dirt road and headed into the 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park. A cool Caravan Park within a cattle station, nestled just behind the sand dunes. Caravans everywhere, and grey ...
80 Mile beach
... booth and now have an appointment for next Thursday to get it fixed. Hope the dentist isnt a butcher!!!! 4 nights at 80 Mile Beach and we headed off yesterday morning and free camped at a road side rest area called Stanley, about 200kms south of ...
West Coast Tour Day 9
This day was to be another all day driving affair from Karjini to 80-Mile Beach. The midway point was Port Hedland. Here, all the iron mined out of the Tom Price region is taken for shipping. It's famous for it's record breaking freight trains. ...
Day 47 - 80 Mile Beach
... Mark. This experience might just teach them both a little patience. One can only hope!! Alisha, Kellie and Emma walked down the beach collecting shells to where Madi and Mark were they seemed to be having heaps of fun. Emma thought it would be funny to ...
Day 48 - 80 mile caravan park
Today was Mother's Day again we did not much which is good. Again the boys this time with Alisha went out fishing again empty handed. Mum and I sat up and read for the day. To finish Mother's Day of we went out to dinner at reception. I had lasagna ...
Day 49 - 80 mile beach
... It was really windy so everything was drying really quick and had to be tied down. This afternoon we walked along the beach collecting cowrie shells and watched the sunset. DID YOU KNOW.... There are many different types and sizes of shells that ...
80 Mile Beach
Another long day of driving to get up past Port Hedland (another dodgy mining town) and onto the beautiful 80 Mile Beach. I'm not sure its actually 80 miles long but it is long and there's a walk of about 2km just to reach the water. The ...
DAY 76 - WEDNESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER - BARN HILL STAT
... packing up and just had to buy some vanilla slices before we left – YUM! We drove out of Barn Hill and headed towards 80 Mile Beach where we will stay. As we left Barn Hill a little late we stopped at a rest area and had some lunch before continuing ...
Day 49 - 80 mile beach
... got to the last one the first piece of clothing was dry. Alisha and I played for a little while. We walked along the beach trying to find some cowrie shells while dad was fishing. Alisha and I paddled in the water. Dad still hasn't caught ...
In transit
... . Our late departure also meant we didn't make it that far on day 1. We did however see dolphins and once at 80 mile beach found some good shells. Apart from that it was a case of driving! Sarah's Corner Over our two nights at 80 ...
She sells sea shells....
... many delays in leaving Broome we finally departed a lot later than expected, pushed for time we hit in the road headed for 80 mile beach. Damo is a bit of speed freak and not hanging around we shot off into the horizon leaving the others in their camper ...
Day 47 - At 80 mile beach
... morning today as we went on a walk down on the beach to look for shells. We found heaps, after high tide had been through the beach was full of shells big and small. We collected so many. Today was a day of doing not much. I was still really tired ...
Auf nach Broome - Fahrtag 1
... ...und fühlen uns nun wie Luxuscamper :-) Dann ging's los... wir fuhren Kilometer um Kilometer geradeaus und hielten erst am 80 Mile Beach im Caravanpark. It rained again... as our camping didn't even have a campers kitchen we decided to grab a coffee ...
Day 47 - 80 Mile Beach
... one. Later on Alisha and I played. We then had dinner and Dad, Mum, Emma, Alisha, John, Jack, Sarah and I went down to the beach. Mum, Emma and Alisha headed back to camp while the rest of us kept on fishing, After a while the tide was in far and a ...
Day 46 - Broome to 80 Mile Beach
This morning we packed up camp and left Cable beach caravan park and headed to the one and only Eighty Mile Beach . It was a 3 to 3 and 1/2 hour drive. The view from out my window was green pretty, long grass with trees and the sky was a pretty colour ...
80 Mile Beach Caravan Park
... getting quite messy. We all went out shell hunting, and came back with heaps, but no big ones :( The kids were really good in deciding their favourites to keep and the rest were returned to the beach. All in all 80 mile beach was a big thumbs up for us. ...
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