1st December
We have spent the past 3 nights camping at Conto Campsite in Leeuwin-naturaliste National Park, just to the South West of Margaret River town. It is a nice, natural bush camp with beautiful beach and coastline just a few minutes drive away. And it’s centrally located to explore the southern Margaret River region.
The Conto’s coastline is stunning.
And Conto’s Beach is beautiful. After a bad run of weather and swell, the kids were happy to get waves on our last day.
As we explored the surrounding beaches, most of which are quite stunning, we had a laugh about how appealing the signs make them sound.
Heading south from Conto you can take a slight detour through Boranup Forest, a beautiful old growth Karri forrest.
About 20km further south is Hamelin Bay. It is famous for the stingrays that come into the shallows and allow you to get up close and pat them. They didn’t come into shore the day we were there, but we enjoyed the scenery nonetheless. The storm clouds created a beautiful contrast of colours.
At the bottom of the peninsula is Cape Leeuwin, where the Southern and Indian Oceans meet. On a good day, you can apparently see the different colours of the oceans as a distant line where they meet. We weren’t so lucky with the weather, but still impressive to look out over the most south-westerly point of the country.
The scenery in this area was quite striking and loved seeing the old water wheel that used to pump water to the lighthouse.
The weather during our time here was pretty hit and miss, so found ourselves at this great little park in Prevelly most days enjoying some sunshine out of the wind.
The campsite was nice and nights were spent with friends around the campfire.
The Travelling Dixons 