Giralia Station

Entrance to station

 After spending an enjoyable week at Coral Bay we did the long 105km haul to Giralia Station (no blog for Coral Bay this time – but snorkeling, swimming, bakery, pub for dinner, and seafood platters – same as always) . 

Plan was to stay at the Homestead camping area and spend a day checking out the beach sites as possible camping spots in the future.

The Homestead camping area is well set out with heaps of level spaces, a good camp kitchen, laundry, dongers and a cottage and a shearing shed converted to toilets and showers (with a view overlooking the paddock). But there is very little to do around the Homestead so if you were not going to the beach sites two nights would be more than enough for most. There was at least a half dozen campers/vans in the two nights we were there.

Camped up  near shearing shed

It’s almost an 80km round trip from the Homestead if you want to visit all the beach sites and the track suffered some damage during the recent deluges but apart from the usual corrugations wasn’t too bad. The tracks along the beach were sandy in places but easily navigated in 4WD high and 25PSI in the tyres.  There was one washout on the way in that would stop me taking in my caravan as it would drag its bum coming out of the ditch. There were lots of vans down on the creek and beach but most were slightly higher/shorter than my van. 

There are primarily two types of beach sites – one area for 8-10 vans alongside the creek with a reasonable high tide mud ramp, and numerous sites (>20) along the beaches with pretty good access. All were nearly full on the day we visited but several were pulling out as another deluge of 30-40ml of rain was forecast that night/next day.

Old man and hound

The day we visited most tinnies were still anchored up waiting for the tide. We did have a chat to a couple who were packing up who said they caught some good whiting the day before (but hey – fisherman tell stories).

So would I go back to Giralia – probable not - as the Homestead while nice, is limited in things you can do, and the spread out beach sites (which would be spectacular in good weather) are fairly exposed and not as good as other options.

Short video can be found HERE