80 Mile Beach WA

80 Mile Beach Caravan Park is situated about 14km from the main highway (maplink) and is actually part of Wallal Downs Station

This beach would have to be the unofficial sea shell capital of Australia! There’s heaps to do here, fish, relax on the beach or happy hours galore! There is definitely no swimming here as the ocean is full of sea snakes and sharks.

Here is a nice YouTube video we found about 80 Mile Beach…

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Beach Fishing

80 Mile Beach is a magnificent long white sand beach which is safe to drive your 4WD on. Let your tyres down to 25PSI and scoot along to do some fishing or just a tour of the beach.

This day the 6 of us headed off to try out a spot of fishing. First spot was the “creek” which we were told was about 10km from the caravan park BUT we discovered it was actually 23km. Had a fish there with no success then trundled back down the beach a bit and had a cast there. I caught a shark (about 4 foot) which gave me a fantastic fight with the drag screaming and me worrying whether I would run out of line or not. Eventually got him into the shallows but he bit through my line and was off; with one of my lures still in his mouth – bugger! Rest of the fishing was then done with a wire tracer and lure which rewarded me with a nice Blue Threadfin Salmon.

Merrisa bought me a very trendy cool fishing shirt which must have brought me some luck as I was the only one to catch anything; but as I always say “It’s all about the serenity”

A collection of the regulars have their own special fishing buggies constructed using a quad bike with purpose built trailer – rod holders, sun shade, esky, bait box, comfortable seating and even mounted stubby holders. One of these outfits even had a skeleton inside with a sign saying “the fish are a bit slow on the bite today” (check the photos).

Shell Collecting

80 Mile Beach is a mecca for shell collectors. So while the blokes fished the girls went shell hunting or all of us went together. Plenty of beach means plenty of shells and some really cool shells were found by all. We even came across a sea snake which had died then was petrified by the sun.