Quobba Station - King Waves Kill

 

Another 250km down the coast, which included filling up with fuel at the Minilya Bridge Roadhouse, we drove into Point Quobba and took the obligatory photo of car and van in front of the ‘King Waves Kill’ sign. It was then another 9km on the dirt to reach Quobba Station. After checking in we were told to pick any site we liked, so we headed to the far end of the campground just in front of the gate to the beach front. As we set up we could hear the roar of the pounding surf. As we had a two-wheel based van we couldn’t camp up on the dune looking straight out onto the beach, but we were only a 50m walk from the stunning coastline, so we were very happy.

We had a great few days at Quobba (3 nights) and were blessed to catch up with Dave & Mish again from night two. They had managed to book one of the sites on the beach front (as they had a single axel van), so we had a lovely two evenings watching the sun dip into the ocean together as we shared nibblies over drinks. We delighted in watching so many whales go past, some very close to the beach, breaching and flapping their fins loudly on the surface of the water. One night we heard the whales singing for over an hour – absolutely beautiful. We loved going to sleep each night listening to the thundering waves.

We were also very lucky to have 3 days and nights at Quobba with absolutely no wind! The owner endorsed just how lucky we were informing us that the week prior had been horrendous. We took full advantage, snorkelling both days at The Aquarium (a lovely beach cove up the end of the track past the blow holes). Even though we snorkelled at high tide, it was still quite shallow, so we were careful to navigate across the sharp coral in spots. The coral was not as impressive as Coral Bay, but we did see a bit of colour (reds, purples and greens) and many fish including an enormous dark blue starfish (around 40cm diameter). Andrew spotted a manta ray with purple spots and I swam over a lovely big green clam that was breathing in the swell of the current. All exciting.

On day two Mish caught a lovely big Dart fish (60cm) off the rocks and we watched several people fillet enormous Spanish Mackerel back at the campground – so obviously a good fishing spot for the anglers.

We made two trips to the blowhole during our stay. We loved watching, and listening, to the water surge through the holes in the rock platform and marvelled at the waves crashing into the limestone cliffs. As we watched we understood the importance of the King Waves Kill sign as you arrive at Point Quobba – so very true. If you fell in you would definitely be in trouble.