Barnhill station

After leaving Pardoo we headed to another cattle station

Barn Hill Station

we travelled a good 10kms on red dirt road into Barn Hill, we were fair warned and fairly well prepared , i had popped the microwave oven plate under our bed pillows, and secured some stuff that might move with corrugations, however what we didn't factor in was the speed hump's which initially Gadget didn't notice. So we probably hit two of them going a little faster than expected.

In saying that Reggie didn't falter (the road was really good and much smoother than we expected) and neither did Ruby although she was a lot redder when we settled her in then she was when we left the tar. The only causalities in the van was a few things inside ruby that bounced out of baskets , but nothing broken.

Barn Hill station was established in the 80’s when the second youngest daughter of the Alfred Grey , owner of Thango station, gave his daughter Janice and her Husband Richard the land that now encompasses Barn Hill station, they immediately set to work creating a tourist destination that now provides powered and unpowered sites, huts and camping shelters.  When we were there it was pretty much at capacity the whole time, with over 120+ sites it is a popular destination.

We chose an unpowered site to give us beach views, and whilst in the image above the beach looks really quiet close it was at least .5 of a kilometre or more away.

However with this view every night we were more than happy to be super conservative with our power. Actually it’s amazing how quickly it becomes a part of your norm and even now in Broome on full power I still quickly grab all i need from the fridge , quickly closing the door and think twice about turning the lights. Ruby did very well at managing with her solar panels and we only needed the generator  occasionally for the fridge in the back of Reggie.

So in the image above you can see that Ruby is located close to the edge of a cliff (she really was at least a good metre or so away) but this is what was behind us, all these amazing stunning red cliffs.

The rocks here were like a rainbow of colours  

Just absolutely stunning I took so many photos. It was crazy.

These cliffs were literally just below where we had set Ruby up, and not far away from where Gadget and i finally wet our fishing rod lines, sadly after two hours all we caught was a tan :-) 

they tell us that Blue bone fish, trevally and Spanish mackerel all are often fished from these waters , sadly none of them liked what we were offering , although the rocks really seemed to like my tackle, i lost two sets , then gave up and moved to the beach to fish.

What i did manage to catch was lots of great pictures, I particularly like this one with the moon peeping through.

The station stay is very well set up, they provide three seperate amenities blocks , ours was lacking a roof , but hey going to the loo and showering under the stars is. VERY cool.

They also have a really excellent cafe , with pretty darn good coffee , and an amazing carrot cake , there is a daily supply of fresh bread. pizzas available every night.  A very posh looking bowling green with some very serious grey nomads playing, and there was even an afternoon craft circle ,probably for all the wives of the fishermen. The other great entertainment was watching all the four wheel drive action as the boys were trying to get their toys out of the water and off the beach.

We were fortunate enough to be there for two nights when they provided musical entertainment, for the children there is a pretty good playground and there was two baby goats , that were so darn cute , i had to check Ruby to make sure gadget hadn’t smuggled one in when we left.

I really enjoyed our time at Barn Hill. And would absolutely recommend it.

Until the next blog 

Travel safe 

The Touring Knights