Willare Bridge Roadhouse

8 – 9 September 2022

We left Derby with one night to fill in before we were booked in to Barn Hill Station. We left the campground at Birdwood Downs quite late, and headed back to the Great Northern Highway. We stopped at Willare Bridge Roadhouse, about 50 km from Derby and considered our options. We decided to check whether we could get into Barn Hill early but because we couldn’t, we opted to stay the night at Willare.

We checked in at the roadhouse and were set up in time for lunch. The green grass in the middle of the campground was a sight to behold! We spent much of the afternoon in the camp kitchen, until the shade reached our camp. It was a perfectly adequate campground for an overnighter.

We were in no hurry to leave in the morning so took out time to finish the digital tasks we had started and packed up in a very leisurely fashion. Once we were packed up, we had a very nice morning tea at the roadhouse café. It was a lovely surprise and Mick commented that it was probably the best roadhouse coffee he had ever had.

From Willare we continued south and made our next stop at Roebuck Roadhouse at the turn-off to Broome. We don’t usually eat at roadhouses but we decided to this time as the timing was right and there were no more rest areas between here and our destination. We enjoyed nice burgers in air conditioned comfort before continuing south the Barn Hill Station.