We arrived on Friday afternoon at the Southern Stars Holiday Park, Anniebrook. This is a very impressive dog friendly park in a great location between Busselton and Dunsborough. Seven vehicles with fourteen people attended this trip and camped with a variety of caravans and roof top tents on the luxurious large grass sites.
Saturday morning we headed out to drive the Three Bears track. This is an access track to the Three Bears surfing spot and runs along the western coastline of the Leeuwin–Naturaliste National Park. We entered from the southern end just above Yallingup and made our way north following the coast along the cliff top. The track conditions had changed somewhat from when Julie and I did the reckie in July. A few sections had been eroded from the recent rainfall, which made for some challenging obstacles. I had an incident when negotiating the first section of the track and hit a rock that I didn’t see. This damaged my front left side rim, causing a large dent. Thankfully Paul had a hammer with him and after a bit of bush mechanics, the tyre held at 26 psi. I replaced it with a new rim back in Perth. I won’t be doing that again !!! Further along we came to a rocky section that had a gnarly drop off. We got the shovels out and all worked together doing some track building. With this plus some Max-trax and spotting each other, we made it into a much easier section. (As usual, the camera doesn’t do it justice as it was more difficult that it looks). At the halfway point we stopped for lunch, enjoyed the view and looked for whales.
When we reached the northern entrance of the track, we ended the convoy there. Mark and Stella went to see the lookout at Sugar Loaf Rock and the others went their own way. I limped my car back to camp with Neil and Deb following behind, as the tyre was now leaking after I inflated it to road pressure. Richard gave me a hand to change it once we got back.
On Sunday morning we drove a 4WD track to Kilcarnup Beach, had morning tea and enjoyed the South West Coast. After leaving Kilcarnup Beach we stopped at Edwards Winery. There we were told of some interesting history about the owner Brian Edwards, who in 1990 made a historic solo flight from England to Australia in a fully restored Tiger Moth. This was in honour of his father Clifford, a pilot who was killed in WW2.
Monday was a free day for people to do their own thing.
Neil and Deb caught up with family members that live in the area while the others went into Dunsborough or Busselton. Julie and I also visited Sharp’s Vintage Motor Museum in Vasse.
Later that day, a group of us went to Yallingup Woodfired Bread for delicious hot bread straight out of the oven. On the way back we stopped in at Lentedal Vineyard Estate. While we sipped on a glass of wine. Richard and his granddaughters Indiana and Eden enjoyed feeding the three pet camels on the estate. As usual with club tradition, we enjoyed happy hour and each other’s company every afternoon.
I would definitely like to come back and stay here again. Everyone enjoyed the trip and we are looking forward to the next one.
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Posted: 21 May 2025 by wp_admin
Wanneroo Wanderers – Yallingup 3 Bears Trip
We arrived on Friday afternoon at the Southern Stars Holiday Park, Anniebrook. This is a very impressive dog friendly park in a great location between Busselton and Dunsborough. Seven vehicles with fourteen people attended this trip and camped with a variety of caravans and roof top tents on the luxurious large grass sites.
Saturday morning we headed out to drive the Three Bears track. This is an access track to the Three Bears surfing spot and runs along the western coastline of the Leeuwin–Naturaliste National Park. We entered from the southern end just above Yallingup and made our way north following the coast along the cliff top. The track conditions had changed somewhat from when Julie and I did the reckie in July. A few sections had been eroded from the recent rainfall, which made for some challenging obstacles. I had an incident when negotiating the first section of the track and hit a rock that I didn’t see.
This damaged my front left side rim, causing a large dent. Thankfully Paul had a hammer with him and after a bit of bush mechanics, the tyre held at 26 psi. I replaced it with a new rim back in Perth. I won’t be
doing that again !!! Further along we came to a rocky section that had a gnarly drop off. We got the shovels out and all worked together doing some track building. With this plus some Max-trax and spotting each other, we made it into a much easier section. (As usual, the camera doesn’t do it justice as it was more difficult that it looks). At the halfway point we stopped for lunch, enjoyed the view and looked for whales.
When we reached the northern entrance of the track, we ended the convoy there. Mark and Stella went to see the lookout at Sugar Loaf Rock and the others went their own way.
I limped my car back to camp with Neil and Deb following behind, as the tyre was now leaking after I inflated it to road pressure. Richard gave me a hand to change it once we got back.
On Sunday morning we drove a 4WD track to Kilcarnup Beach, had morning tea and enjoyed the South West Coast. After leaving Kilcarnup Beach we stopped at Edwards Winery. There we were told of some interesting history about the owner Brian Edwards, who in 1990 made a historic solo flight from England to Australia in a fully restored Tiger Moth. This was in honour of his father Clifford, a pilot who was killed in WW2.
Monday was a free day for people to do their own thing.
Neil and Deb caught up with family members that live in the area while the others went into Dunsborough or Busselton. Julie and I also visited Sharp’s Vintage Motor Museum in Vasse.
Later that day, a group of us went to Yallingup Woodfired Bread for delicious hot bread straight out of the oven. On the way back we stopped in at Lentedal Vineyard Estate. While we sipped on a glass of wine. Richard and his granddaughters Indiana and Eden enjoyed feeding the three pet camels on the estate.
As usual with club tradition, we enjoyed happy hour and each other’s company every afternoon.
I would definitely like to come back and stay here again. Everyone enjoyed the trip and we are looking forward to the next one.
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