Cape Range National Park

On the western side of the Exmouth Peninsula is the Cape Range National Park. Camps are $10/p/n. We stayed for 3.


The park is alongside the Ningaloo Marine Reserve and provides some great beaches, coral, marine life, walking, cycling and snorkelling. The sites are generally within 150m of the beaches and fairly well protected although we did pull our awning down one evening when the wind turned southerly at about 20kt's. We saw some good sized fish, turtles, a large Banded Krait (sea snake), and at sunset each evening we sat and watched the whales playing as they were heading south about 300m off the beach. It truly is a pretty spectacular place with names like Oyster Stacks, Turquoise Bay etc.

This little guy called on us each morning and afternoon. He had one leg and walked using his beak and his good leg. He used to land and "beak trot" over, then squawk to let us know he was there. We'd give him some bread and he'd fly off to the next site. He was there spot on 4pm each of the 3 days we were there.

















Rose and I rode from one end of the park to the other whilst we were there, a distance of some 46km's each way. Our camp (Kurrajong) was about 2/3's of the way in.

I'm starting to put some k's in with the Cape to Cape MTB ride happening later this month.

We're off to Coral Bay now, packed up already for an early start before the wind gets up and via Exmouth to buy diesel and to stock up. There's not much to be had in Coral Bay we've been told...