Barn Hill Outstation (2 nights)

About 150km south of Broome is Thangoo cattle station (4000 head of cattle) and on their property they run the Barn Hill camping ground.  Barn Hill is a wee bump of the landscape where explorer Fredrick someone or other placed a cairn.  The camping ground is near full at this time of year mainly occupied by the sun seeking grey nomads who stay for the 2-4 months.  It seems a better option than Broome, less noise (no airport, speedway and people heading off to work at the crack of dawn) and cheaper camp fees.  Plus they have a lawn bowls green (where a tournament was underway the day we arrived), bingo night, bbq night, Sunday roast and everyday people line up for the freshly made (world famous apparently) lamingtons and vanilla slice.  The kids joined the queue and acquired the coveted vanilla slice (basically custard square with pink icing), the verdict - it was OK (Enzo) and very good (Leon). I liked the no-roof toilets and showers, at night there was a full moon so quite that was cool to gaze at whilst showering!

The start of the lamington/vanilla slice crowd at Barn Hill

Enzo ready for a beach footy game at Barn Hill

The beaches at Barn Hill are fabulous, crazy rock formations and rock pools on the point between the two beaches, the northern most beach was great for shell collecting, swimming, playing soccer and more crazy rock formations.  Leon once again took to fishing, he finds that he becomes instant friends with all the other more senior fisher-people.  Enzo was in shell collecting heaven, he started this hobby at Middle Lagoon and also finds he has instant friends, mainly with older woman!