Tripping Over: 80 Mile Beach

After leaving Broome we started to make our way down to Port Hedland to look for some work to fill the piggy banks back up, we had heard a bunch of great things about Eighty Mile beach, which is on the way to Port and decided to stop there a night.

Just before the turn off to Eighty Mile is the Sandfire Roadhouse, we stopped to ask if we would be okay to tow our van down to Eighty Mile as the road is unpaved, they all seemed to agree that we would have no trouble so off we went, after taking a few snaps of the local peacock.

Once you turn off the main road its about 14 kms to the Caravan park, and the road is not so great, it's corrugated and built for vans that are a little younger than ours we were scared the whole thing was going to fall apart!

We tried to go a bit quicker but that didn't help so we slowed down to walking pace which the van seemed to prefer.

The lovely surrounds driving in looks like something from a horror movie.

Finally we made it!

We were a bit disappointed when we pulled in, the place was a bit of a mess, people had explained it to be a bit of paradise but after talking to the park owners we found out there was a cyclone that came through in August and they have had trouble getting workers to come out and give them a hand.

There were a heap of people fishing but no one swimming, the water was really murky at the shore but seemed to go crystal blue about 100 metres in. Even though it was stinking hot we were not game to go in, especially after a fisherman told us he caught a fair sized shark there only a few hours before!!

There were thousands of shells on the beach.

Daring to enter.

Welcome to fly country!

We got to eighty mile on remembrance day so the little shrine was fitting.

Eighty Mile

We sat down to enjoy a ginger beer and take in our view (above) when we could swear we could hear some awful music playing very loud, turns out old 'denim dan' was set up in a van not far from ours and was putting on a karaoke show for about a dozen other travellers, the park is really big but no matter where you were you could here this bunch crooning away, and it was awful, but we did have a really good giggle about it and they seemed to be having a ball, at the end of the day that's all that matters (and as long as they stopped before we wanted to sleep we didn't care).