WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Australia offers you many unique sights and curious, delightful and awe inspiring travelling experiences. Choose where you will visit taking into account a comfortable travelling pace for you and what particularly excites your interest. This campervan holiday is a wonderful opportunity to unwind and savour what is on offer: natural beauty, great food and wine and the thrill of much exploring and adventuring. The following are possible locations you may wish to explore Western Australia. Visiting them all may take a longer time than you have available, so choose a broad area of particular interest to you and focus your attention there.

St John Gorge & Dimond Gorge

Bell Gorge

Namburg National Park

Kalbarri

Shark Bay (Monkey Mia)
Shark Bay is actually two bays formed by two peninsulas side by side. Known as Gathaagudu (‘two waters’) by the Malgana Aboriginal people, the shape of shark bay is one of its most distinguishing features. It is also a place of contrasting colours and textures, plants and animals, land and sea. It’s combination of unique wildlife, rich flora and stunning scenery unlike that found anywhere else. About 300 wild bottlenose dolphins live in the bay and at Monkey Mia a small group of them come in daily and interact with humans on the beach.

Wooramei

Coral Bay

Exmouth (Ningaloo Reef)

Carnavon

Geraldton

Perth

Margaret River
Renowned for its world class wineries, surf and beaches, the Augusta-Margaret River Region is a beguiling visitor destination. It has abundant natural attractions, cosmopolitan café strips, world class wineries and top notch cafes and restaurants.

Cape Leeuwin

Albany

Esperance
Small but beautiful, Esperance is known as the ‘Bay of Isles’. It has brilliant white, wide sandy beaches, scenic coastlines and the panorama of offshore islands of the Recherche Archipelago. It has a dense saltwater lake, pink in colour and known as Pink Lake. There is also an abundance of wildlife on Woody island including seals, sea lions, dolphins, sea eagles and whales during the breeding season.

Wave Rock

Broome
Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley Region. The town has an interesting history around the exploits of the men and women who developed the pearling industry. Today there are large cultured pearl farming businesses to see when you visit as well as many relics of its pearling history. One of the major attractions of the area is Cable Beach. 22.3 km long, it is a beach with beautiful white sand and crystal clear turquoise water. However caution is necessary when swimming because of the box jelly fish in the water from November to March.

Derby
Located in the Kimberley Region, Derby is situated on the tidal mud flats on the edge of King sound. It has a high Aboriginal population and many outlying Aboriginal settlements. Founded as a pastoral and mining community, these industries still help drive the local economy along with the tourist trade. Derby is the base of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the Kimberley and has a history as an aviation centre for the region, Tunnel Creek One of the ‘must sees’ of the Kimberley Region, the Tunnel Creek National Park is the site of a 750 meter tunnel worn through the Napier Range by water. The tunnel is up to 12 meters high and 15 meters wide in places. Near the centre of the cave the roof has collapsed and is an excellent place to observe the colony of fruit bats. Take a torch, wear sneakers and be prepared to get wet and possibly cold. There are at least five species of bats in the cave. Small crocodiles are sometimes seen and feed on small fish, frogs and insects. Tunnel Creek is a fascinating place to explore.

Fitzroy Crossing
Fitzroy Crossing is on the Great Northern Highway at the point where the highway crosses the Fitzroy River. It is a great place from which to explore the surrounding Devonian Reef National Park. The town also boasts the oldest pub in the Kimberley Region

Bungle Bungles (Purnululu National Park)
Bungle Bungle National Park, also called Purnululu National Park has peculiar orange and black rocky stripped mounds called Bungle Bungles. There are several amazing gorges within walking distance of the carpark (Echidna Chasm and Cathedral Gorge) and more are able to be seen when visitors take the scenic flights which are available

Halls Creek
Halls Creek is mainly an Aboriginal settlement which services a growing tourist trade. There is a motel, hotel, caravan park, two roadhouses and several tours to the nearby Bungle Bungles and Wolf Creek Crater.

Kununurra
A great base for exploring the East Kimberley area, Kununurra is a relatively new town, having only been gazetted in 1960. it is now has a thriving population of 6,000 and the town’s economy is supported by agriculture, mining and tourism. It has all the facilities that a tourist could need and is close to all the major tourist destinations of the East Kimberley such as Lake Argyle.

Lake Argyle
Lake Argyle is a huge, awe inspiring man made lake near the border of the Kimberley Region and the Northern Territory. The lake is 18 times the size of the Sydney Harbour and a scenic flight is really the only way to view it in its entirety.. It was created during the damming of the Ord River. There is an interesting drive right around the lake with many fascinating and scenic vistas with only a small portion of the lake visible at any one time while driving.

El Questro Station
The El Questro Wilderness Park, developed from the original El Questro Cattle Station is a million acres in size with a diverse landscape throughout. It has rugged ranges, broad tidal flats, rainforest pockets, gorges, thermal pools and waterfalls. Animals, fish and bird life congregate in the rivers and waterholes, some of which are fresh water springs and others part of salt water estuaries. The El Questro Wilderness Park is open from April to October each year and this unspoilt frontier land typifies the sheer grandeur and beauty of the Kimberley Region..

Karijini National Park
Karijini National Park is an adventurer’s paradise. Once there you can explore ancient rocky tunnels and plunging gorges, paddle through crystal clear waterways and swim under stunning waterfalls. There are numerous lookouts that allow you to look down into the gorges and also see the broad vista of the Park. You can also climb down into some of the gorges on tours guided by experienced local guides. Bushwalking and 4 wheel drive tours are available within the Park.