Barn Hill Station C/V Park

Barn Hill is situated on Thangoo Station, a working cattle station about 130ks south of Broome and right on the coast. This park is sitting high above the sea on big red sand dunes. We stayed 3 nights and enjoyed the place, but probably wouldn't return. Its a great place for fisherman who have a boat and there is quite a lot of retired people who pre book their spot and come back year after year for months at a time. There was heaps of mosquitos about so we were liberally applying repellant a couple of times a day.
The beach is the main attraction. To get to the beach you need to walk a fair way along a dusty red track then climb down a wooden ramp and stair case built into the red sand dunes. I got a splinter up my fingernail from the railing and had to grit my teeth while Dave tortured me with pointy tweezers getting it out, a bit of a drama queen I am when it comes to pain. :-)
We walked on the beach at both high and low tides. At high tide we watched a shark chasing fish and he swam within 30 metres of the shore, where a group of people were swimming. We heard the following day they were virtually beaching themselves while chasing the fish. You wouldn't catch me in there!!!! At low tide we sat in rock pools deep enough to cool down in and did the old grey nomad chat with other couples who were cooling off like us.

The long term patrons spent a lot of time getting their bowling green ready for the "season". Apparently the long term'res take it quite seriously. Its one of the highlights of their entertainment along with their Sunday roast nights. The " season " starts about 1st June. These long terme'rs have planted veggie gardens, so we gave one of them our thyme, parsley and chives as we kept forgetting to use them. After a couple of days we decided to head towards Broome.Read more