WARROORA, WA TRAVEL
Our destination is Sandy Point, one of a dozen coastal camps at Warroora Station (pronounced Warra). It's located about 12 hours drive from Perth, halfway between Carnarvon and Exmouth, on WA'S Coral Coast. It's a two-day, overnight road trip for us from Dunsborough and my husband and I shared the driving.
We hitched the Lotus Trooper to our 200 series Toyota LandCruiser, loaded the rooftop tinny, numerous surfboards and three kelpies. The suspension on the Cruiser is fitted with a Lovells GVM and BTC Upgrade, increasing our carrying and towing capacity. It's a bonus for this self-appointed ‘camp princess’ who loves her extra creature comforts in the Lotus, especially when offgrid.
We broke the trip with an overnight stop at Galena Bridge, north of Northampton. This picturesque free campsite on the Murchison River has drop toilets and dump points. It has plenty of places north and south of the bridge to pull up well off the Northwest Coastal Highway. Hitting the road early from here meant the highway was quieter and gifted us a pretty sunrise that blushed the salmon gums a
