Fowlers Bay Caravan Park - SA

This place has all the qualities of a stay at Jamaica Inn right down to the surly, non communicative landlord. Like Dartmoor it is situated on a barren, windswept piece of dirt , the difference being that it is close to the sea. What is euphemistically called a beach is a shoreline that reeks of decomposing seaweed lapped by waves the colour of dishwater. The caravan park lacks quite o few of the basics - no electric jug or microwave. The grills & gas plates look as though they come from a 1960 caravan park even down to original grease. There was one toilet & two showers each for ladies & gents with no where to place soap in the shower. Only one vanity unit had running water. Nothing to dry your hands & signs everywhere admonishing you not to dump sullage in the toilets unless you wanted to wake to find your camp reciprocally dumped with septic waste. The perimeter fence was galvanised iron that needed repair so it blew about in the gale force wind all night. In short, this is the sort of place that, had SA been a penal colony, some sadist British officer would have selected as a perfect site for a convict settlement.

Follow up to this review came out of Fowlers Bay on the easten most road what a difference to the western side, the roadhouse signs near Nundroo try and point you through Corrabie keep on heading East on the Eyre Highway until you come across the Fowlers Bay sign, road is shorter and tarmac for half it's length.

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Fowlers bay caravan park lies in the non gazetted part of SA there is no shire or council to run things so bear this in mind for instance the signposting way finding leaves a bit to be desired there is no signpost on the the Eyre highway so it is easy to miss the turnoff or you could end up coming in through Coorabie township. The caravan park is nice enough close to the foreshore with friendly staff, limitations on the water with very low pressure and limitations on the power with the system limited to 1.3kw draw per site. The toilets and showers are clean but limited in number, the camp kitchen good with a get together on Saturday nights at $12 pp. No sullage the managers are happy enough for the grey water to be put on the plants there is no dump point, generator runs at times near sites 7,8,9 so you may want to avoid those. Children's play ground near 7.