Warroora Station, Western Australia

Rating: 4/5

Location: Warroora Station, Western Australia – Lat: 23 17 35 S Long: 113 50 39 E

Hey there, my friend – this is Warroora Station (pronounced ‘Warra’) – a working sheep station perched on 50 kilometres of Ningaloo Reef coastline on the edge of the World Heritage listed Ningaloo Marine Park.

After we left Point Quobba, we drove back to Carnarvon to fill our water tanks and buy some fresh fruit and vegetables for our trip north.

There are many signs as you drive northward in Western Australia warning that access to fresh water is limited and most of the towns rely on desalinated water for drinking.

We sang along to a selection of music from the 70s and 80s as we shared the highway with large trucks and lots of caravanners. Lucky for them, they couldn’t hear our sweet honeyed tones!

We turned left off the highway onto the Warlu Way, passed through the Tropic of Capricorn and took the northern road into Warroora Station. There are anthills on the road into the station which are as tall as a person and are as wide as they are high.

There are various camping options at the station. There is beach camping at the northern end of the site but the caravans are lined up so close to each other, it looks like a crowded caravan park.

Further south, there are also some beach sites that are a bit more private but they are limited to a two week stay and the caretakers advised us that they like to put families in there during the school holidays. If we had selected one of those spots, we’d have to move just as the holidays began and would likely be relegated to a camp area well back from the beach.

We compromised (if you can call it that!) with a beaut spot at ‘The Ridge’. That’s our caravan pictured just behind the grassy dune in the photograph below.

It is a wonderful spot to sit in the evenings and watch the sun being swallowed like a sweet circle of butterscotch into the ocean where the world’s edge meets the horizon. Once the sun disappears, the evenings cool down significantly.

 

The beach is a mix of rocky reef, crushed shells and sand and the water colour is spectacular.

 

 

 

There’s no chance of keeping Indy out of the water on a warm day and Patch was not far behind him.

With the Western Australia July school holidays around the corner (yes I know, it doesn’t seem so long ago that we had the last lot of school holidays), we decided that we would spend a few weeks at Warroora and get a few things done.

Things like making sure that the sea stayed salty; the tide rose to the correct levels; the sunrises were on time; and that the sun continued to set in the west.

Of course, Kev was also tasked with the more difficult but critical job of ensuring that there was always enough beer in the refrigerator to toast each day’s sunset.

We’ll be here for a few weeks and we’ll explore the rest of the station so I’ll give you another update with more photographs soon.

Until then sweet friend, may you find enough time in your busy, wonderful life to spend it doing nothing.

Cost: $15 pp pd/$37.50 pp pw (due to increase to $20/$50 in July)
Dump point: Yes
Fishing: Yes
Phone/internet: Intermittent, Telstra OK with aerial
Showers: No
Toilets: No
Water: Non potable only