Kooljaman at Cape Leveque

Dunmowin · Guru

Kooljaman at Cape Leveque

justcruisin01 · Guru

Dont miss you with the prices, however it is a very pretty area.

We made a base camp at Middle Lagoon & done a day trip up there, we also flew over all that area on way back from the Horizontal falls.

Beautiful.

JC

GaryKelly · Guru

Caravans have heaters and/or air conditioners.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I doubt you'd get the average caravan up that road, but I suppose there'd be a few camper-trailers. Electricity is expensive to generate when you are so remote, so I'd have thought the unpowered sites would be much cheaper than powered ones. confuse

Beautiful area.

Mark · Senior Member

Dunmowin wrote:
Just watching a show on WA regional TV (it is cold outside here today) and there was a segment on Kooljaman Resort at Cape Leveque. Found it interesting, and thought we might bookmark the place as a potential visit next year as we move up the WA Coast. Found the following information
There are 26 powered & unpowered sites located in a grassed area with some shade cover and share wood barbecue's are situated throughout the campsite.
Ablutions, BBQ's and laundry facilities are located nearby.
Nightly rates:
Powered Sites - $43 per night (1-2 people)
Unpowered Sites - $38 per night (1-2 people)
Extra Adults - $19 per adult,
Extra Child - $10 per child (3-16yrs).
Please Note: Power is for camping fridges and lighting only. Minimum 2 night stay.
We accept tents, camper trailers and campervans. No caravans.
Don't think we will visit after all.

Was at Cape LeVeque about eight weeks ago, you and believe me you wouldn't want to take a caravan up there!! We saw broken springs, snapped chassis (on a camper trailer) and this week we have towed 10 vehicles and their trailers back from various places along the road up there. The road is shocking, they reckon it has been graded!! The driver must have forgotten to put the blade down!! Plus the rain over the last few weeks hasn't helped. We were very dissapointed with both Cape Leveque and Middle Lagoon. The owner of Middle Lagoon passed away and now his kith and kin are trying to run it. We were there for four nights and I ended up fixing their generator as everybody had gone fishing leaving no power to everybody that had paid and had fridges full of persihables, they didn;t seem too bothered!! Toilets were downright distgusting, and it's the same price as Kooljaman. Talking of which, the camp pitches (sites - area's whatever it is they are called) are TINY, we struggled with a two man tent and the car. The continuos flow of day trippers up to the top were a bloody nuisance, walking through the camp and their screaming kids!! Save your money honey, take a flight up there from Broome Airport and just make it a day trip, you really don't need any more than a day. Probably one of our worst experiences since travelling.

Mark

Kiwi-as · Guru

Dunmowin, I was very interested in your post as we are about to leave Darwin for The Kimberly and would have liked to of included a trip to Cape LeVeque. Thanks for your input Mark, plan on sending you a PM when we get down your way.

Evie n Rhys · Senior Member

Are you still here Kiwi As? I thought I had missed seeing you before you left. Let me know when your heading off, maybe another cuppa before you go? My place this time perhaps.
Cheers
Tess

SCOEY · Veteran Member

We did Cape Leveque a couple of years ago with a camper trailer - drove to conditions and was fine. Middle Lagoon was ok, Beagle Bay Church was great. There are a couple of camp spots between Kooljaman and One Arm Point - we stayed at Gumbarrin - beautiful spot on top of cliffs over looking a lagoon with a huge tidal movement. Pretty basic but clean amenities. Lass who runs the place showed us where and how to fish and the large fish trap on the reef was interesting. Saw turtles and the sunset over the water was magnificent - ending up staying 3 nights. Also did a bush tucker tour with a local - great half a day experience where we searched for and found bush honey, other bush tucker and mud crabs. Took a half day trip to Kooljaman and walked around and had lunch in the restaurant. It's a nice area - we enjoyed it.

Cheers.

SCOEY

wendyv · Guru

Sad to read that Middle Lagoon has gone downhill. We stayed there several years ago and it was lovely. But this is a fairly common story in some of these establishments. The couple who had set up Middle Lagoon obviously had strong motivation and worked at it - but even when we were there, was a number of relatives hanging about doing nothing to help.

Similar story with Honeymoon Beach out of Kalumburu. As Les French has gotten more involved in community politics, he has less time for the campground - and he finds it hard to get family members to consistently do what is needed there. Last time we were up that way, the competition at McGowans had a couple of white guys running it - seems to make the standards more consistent.