We stayed at the Coffin Bay Caravan Park for Christmas. It’s the only Caravan Park in town and is across the road from the foreshore. Unfortunately the Caravan sites don’t offer a view of the bay.
Coffin Bay Caravan Park
The park has many good sized drive thru powered sites and can cater for fifth wheelers. There are also several smaller sites for campers. The day we arrived there were still quite a few vacant sites. But over a few days the park started to get busier and on Boxing Day it looked like it was almost to its full capacity. There are two amenitie blocks and both are clean and modern. There’s a camp kitchen and laundry and a couple of BBQ’s located around the park.
Coffin Bay is renowned for its Oysters and if you are looking at buying some you can purchase them fresh from “The Oyster Shed”. Across the road from the Caravan Park is the Oyster Walk which follows along the foreshore for around 15 kilometers .We enjoyed parts of the walk and found if we turned left from the caravan park we could wander along the trail meandering through coastal vegetation and holiday shacks to the boat ramp. Turning right from the Caravan Park saw us walking past the RAW Meats Butcher Shop and 1802 Restaurant and onto Paradise Court. Both are great walks and did them several times.
The beaches in the Coffin Bay National Park are something else. Such blue clear water and weathered limestone cliffs. We took a drive on sealed roads to Point Avoid, Almonta Beach and Yangie Bay. The park has around 20 kilometres of sealed roads and a lot more tracks for 4WD vehicles. The price per vehicle is $10 or $8 for Concession Card Holders per day. There’s also a great camping area which is $12 per night. Some of the bays are large enough for Caravans. But you will need to be fully self-contained although long drop toilets are provided.
Coffin Bay National Park camping ground.
The town of Coffin Bay has two general stores a post office, two bottles shops one of which is in the Coffin Bay Hotel and a fabulous butcher. If you have been following our posts you will know by now how much we love to ‘put back’ into the community and what better way than to buy some fresh meat from the Butcher.
The town also has a few places to eat out like the yacht club and sports club. But check to see which days they are open. The Coffin Bay Hotel is also open for meals daily and has a courtesy bus that will pick you up and bring you home.
Fishing is very popular and many of those who stayed in the park had a tinny or large boat and would go out fishing on a daily basis. Graeme went fishing from the beach one day and came home with some King George Whiting and they were very yummy. Looking forward to our next stay and catching some more fresh fish.
Below are a list of others places we have visited that may be of interest to you:
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- Alice Springs NT to Broken Hill NSW
- Broken Hill to Sawtell – NSW
- Crossing the Nullarbor
- Free Camps – Broken Hill to Cobar -NSW
- NSW – Free camps, Donation camps, Showgrounds and Caravan Parks 2019
- Northern Territory – Free camps, Donation camps and Caravan Parks 2018/2019
- Queensland Road Trip 2017/2018
- South Australia to Western Australia 2019
- South Australia trip 2017/2018
- Victoria 2017/2018
- Western Australia Coastal Trip 2018
- WA’s Got the Lot 2019
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Dixie and Graeme