Lake Poorarecup Easter Camping

Hi!! We're back from our Easter Vacation to Lake Poorarecup. The lake is a 5 hour drive south of Perth, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We started with a freeway that turned into a 4-lane rural road to 2-lanes, to 2-lanes, but only the middle was paved to gravel to sand... It was a good thing our car is 4WD.

We found out about the camping through a local water ski club, "Starski Waterski Club". From what I can gather, the name does descend from Starsky and Hutch - it's corny, but the people in the club were terrific and friendly. Our kids probably had the most fun out of everyone in meeting new "mates" and playing endlessly on the beach. Joey even went out tubing in his own tube- the water was rough, but he held on for the fastest ride of his life!

Our camping gear was begged and borrowed from friends here- Thanks Collette & Kerry!!! It's too bad we didn't hook up with this club earlier- summer is an end and the club will be slowing down after this past weekend. It is warm enough through the winter to ski, so hopefully a few more pulls will show up.

If you are visiting Perth, check out the Starski club at Deep Water Point most weekends. They will be happy to accommodate you with a pull for a small bill.

Lake Poorarecup Skiing

Easter Weekend is a 4-day holiday in Australia - Good Friday + Monday off so people can recover from sugar highs on Sunday. We headed south to Lake Poorrarecup for a weekend of skiing and playing in the sun with a local water ski club.

We set up camp at Lake Poorrarecup in Western Australia last night. We were welcomed by a work crew ready to help with the tent pitching rather than sit around in chairs and jeer, which they had admitted to doing in many other instances.

Skiing was ok- the hangover from drinking and campfire songs was not helpful to get up early for the flat water.



Lake Poorrarecup is about three times the area of Snyder's Lake. This encourages up to 10 boats running around making wakes, so it made me miss home, but it was still fun to get out of the house/office and just enjoy the outside. Joey even went tubing! It was a bit rough for him to kneeboard, but he had lots of fun playing in the water pushing Ryan around.