Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria is a popular area for camping lovers. It is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland and is located in the state of Victoria.
We’ve been waiting to go on a camping trip to Wilsons Promontory National Park. As we did a bit of research, it was found that there are so many camping areas in Wilsons Prom national park. So we decided to start from one corner 😉
Hence, we planned to go to Walkerville camping reserve as the start of our Wilsons prom expedition 😉 Stretching along the coast from the sand barrier of Point Smythe to the sheltered waters of Waratah Bay, Cape Liptrap Coastal Park has strikingly beautiful scenery.
We reserved a camping site from this website liked here. It is better to book a spot early specially if you are planning to head there on a long weekend.
We reached Walkerville caming site around 10.30am on a Saturday morning on a cloudy and cold winter day. We were a bit worried that it might rain, but we were hoping for the best. We set up our tents in our designated camping site and walked around to see the beautiful beach.
There is an information centre at the camp site where you can get information on things to do around the camping area and hire a fire drum if you don’t already have one 🙂 The camp site has common washrooms with hot water showers. It was clean and well maintained. There are powered and un-powered site which you can chose while reserving your camp site.
There is a small kiosk just next to the information centre in the camp site, which has almost all the basic things you would need in the camp and also coffee, ice cream and pizza 😉
After settling down a bit, we decided to head to a super market to buy some stuff for our camp fire. The nearest supermarket was the Tarwin Lower IGA, which is roughly around 20km away from the camp sight.
After this we walked to the look-out point, which starts from the camping site. It was a nice walk through trees and bushes, which is the cape liptrap coastal park. After walking for a while we came to the look-out point for a stunning view of the ocean. Even though it was cloudy we could slightly see peaks of Wilsons Promontory across the ocean. The sound of the waves and the breeze makes it such a calming area to spend your afternoon.
After the walk we came back to the camp site to set up the camp fire. It was such a great experience.
As we sat around the camp fire trying to stay warm, few neighbors paid us visits 😉 .. one was a wombat looking a bit annoyed to have his home overtaken by us 
and a possum was checking why we were having a fire on at night 😀
The night was cold but luckily it didn’t rain even though the sky was covered with clouds. We were not lucky enough to see any stars that night. At night we went to the beach just to have a small walk in the sandy beach. That is when we noticed that the waves has gone down a lot due to low tides. We could walk in the sea bed for like 10-15m into the sea. It was my first time experiencing low tides. Even though there is a sandy beach at high tide, the beach was covered with rocks at low tides.
The next day morning the first things we wanted to do was to check the beach to see whether the tides has returned.. but it was not 🙂 Still we could walk into the sea in the sea bed. The area was covered with heavy fog and clouds.. the rising sun was clearly seen behind heavy clouds.
Also in the morning we found out that the location where we had our tents was the home of a hungry wallerby as well.
After having coffee and some breakfast we started our day off with a walk to the historical lime kilns and heritage listed cemetery (You can drive there as well). Despite being a little cold, it was a lovely sunny day for a walk in the beach. We started our walk from the beach near our camping site and walked towards south. Still the tide has not returned to normal level so we could easily walk in the beach watching kids playing with the waves and surfers waiting for the waves and sea gulls and different birds waiting for their meal.
After walking in the beach for a while there is a small path which goes up and down and take you to a scenic lookout. It’s small open area where you can sit in a bench and have a snack while enjoying the ocean view.
There is another path heading towards the historical cemetery and the lime kilns. The path to the lime kilns in along the coast with an elevation providing you with endless scenic views.
By the time we returned to the camp site after the walk the tide has returned to the shore.
After having lunch, we spend some time near the beach and headed back home.
On our way back we stopped at few places to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Our path was along Korumburra South with stunning views of grassy mountains and valleys.
That was the end of our first camping trip in winter. We came back home hoping to go on another trip again soon.
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