Eighty Mile Beach

 29 September – 1 October 2022

We finally left Broome and headed south to Eighty Mile Beach. We had visited in 1991 and Mick really wanted to return so we booked an unpowered site for a night hoping it would be as good as we remembered. It was!

The caravan park is about 9 kilometres from the highway along a reasonable unsealed road and as we came over the last rise we saw the sparkling turquoise water ahead. The park wasn’t too crowded and we scored a spot quite close the beach access, behind the dunes. It didn’t take long for us to decide that we might spend two nights instead of one. 

We did get some rain on the first night but not the forecast storm. By morning the rain had stopped and we went for a walk on the beach – all the way out to the water at a very low tide. The low that morning had been 0.1m at 6:48am, and we reached the water at around 8:00am so it had already started to come back in. We measured the distance we walked using an app on my phone and it was about 1.36 kilometres from the high tide mark to the water. This was a good example of the massive tides that occur along the Kimberley coast.

We spent our two days at Eighty Mile Beach relaxing and walking on the beach. The caravan park has a real holiday feel to it and it wasn’t hard to slow down and take it all in.

Unfortunately we didn’t have the flexibility to stay any longer even though we would have liked to, so we set off on Saturday morning for Port Hedland.