Free Camping at Pallinup River Nature Reserve.

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23rd November, 2018


We were in the town of Albany most of the day and needed to move on, and find a free campsite for the night.

We ended up at the Pallinup River Nature Reserve right next to a wooden bridge which the Mains Road worker were working on repairs to the bridge.

The bridge called the Marra Bridge officially open on December 1962.


We drove into the site a few fellow campers were all ready setup for the night, we walked the site but every fellow camper started having a chat to us, which left no time to setup anywhere else.

So the camper trailer now setup and fellow travelers came over to checkout our setup, which they liked.

The campsite has bins, table and chairs and a covered bbq area. Very nice, a bit close to the road but was nice for 3days.

I tried to walk around the area and a very steep decent down to the river which had river water flowing. You can see in the wet season the water comes along way up the banks of the river.

The bridge has a very long span and is supported by wooden tree trunks for post.

The use of wooden trunks as rafters supporting the bridge on top.

This is a very nice stop, flies were an issue, no toilet block. We are self sufficient and have our own ensuite. Road noise in the day but not much traffic over the bridge at night. It seem that a lot of logging trucks carrying tree trunks use this road. There is also good telstra mobile reception in this campsite. 

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