In Reply to: me posted by Angela on Friday, 2. September 2005 at 12:30 Bali Time:
A big country town with a nice beach. And much dearer than Bali. We had a good time there a number of years ago at Festival time, but at other times I couldn't take more than a week or two.
How about Coral Bay? Great snorkeling on wonderful live coral with endless fish just a few metres out from Paradise Beach. But no entertainment in the evening. Costs more to park your caravan than some hotels in Bali charge for an arcon room for two with cooked breakfast. And make sure that you take all your food and drinks with you, unless you have a bottomless pocket.
Exmouth? At least there's a couple of supermarkets and a discount bottle shop. And a fish processing plant where you can buy fish and prawns at a very reasonable price.
Albany, Denmark, Dunsboro? Great in the summer, but the whole of the Southwest is great in the summer, including the places where a lot of us already live.
Don't think that I don't like WA, I love it. But in the winter, Bali is the place to be. And don't try making helpful suggestions to the State Tourism Dept, I tried it years ago and they just got all sh*tty.