Eighty Mile Beach – De Grey River

All the fishermen on Eighty Mile Beach - not one of them catching a fish!!

We left Broome with the plan to camp next on Eighty Mile Beach. We went in and visited a couple of the places you could camp at along Eighty Mile but then we decided to free camp elsewhere instead. It was a funny sight to see. The beach was lined as far as you could see with fisherman standing about 15-20m apart from each other, all with rods out in the water hoping to bring in a feed. The only problem was that after we spoke to a number of fishermen who had been fishing for 2-3 weeks there every day, no one was catching anything! With the number of hooks out there in the water, there obviously couldn’t be any fish, as fish would get caught simply by getting tangled up in all the fishing line in the water! We didn’t waste our time putting a line in! We camped one night at a road side camp area set back a few hundred metres from the road and the second night on the banks of the De Grey River not far from Port Headland.