WEST AUSTRALIAN STATIONSTATION STAYSSTAYS

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Forget the hustle and bustle of city life and stay on an Station Stay

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SHEEP AND CATTLE STATIONS HAVE BEEN THE BACKBONE OF WEST AUSTRALIA’S OUTBACK FOR OVER 130 YEARS - AND HOSPITALITY IS NOTHING NEW FOR THEM. WELCOMING THE SHEARERS, JACKAROOS, GOVERNESSES, HEAD STOCK MEN, NEIGHBOURS, MAIL CONTRACTORS AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THESE REMOTE AREAS.

A diverse range of accommodation offers a multitude of experiences. Grand old homesteads present comfortable respite whilst you watch the day to day work of running a station. Self-contained cottages are relaxed and personable. Get comfy down at the shearers quarters and imagine life back in the days of booming prices. Most stations will also offer you a patch to roll out your swag or set up your camper, surrounded by stunning scenery and whistling birds in the trees above. Despite the fact you could sit back all day and soak up the atmosphere of the outback, the list of activities you can partake in is endless. 4WDing, hiking, mountain-bike riding, birdwatching, painting, horse treks, walk-trails, guided tours, wildflowers, stargazing or perhaps even lend a hand and get involved in station life. No matter your choice you can be assured of sharing hundreds of thousands of acres with only a few others. However you choose to spend your time at a Station Stay you can be guaranteed of an experience like no other. Forget the hustle and bustle of city life and allow the wide sweeping plains and ruggedly beautiful landscapes of these Mid-West Stations Stays capture your imagination. For more information visit: www.wastationstays.com.au 1 LOCATION: 5618 AJANA ROAD, KALBARRI, WA GPS: 27° 38’ 44” S 114° 14’ 17” E

ACCOMMODATION • Camping and caravan sites - Homestead sites and self-contained 4WD bush camping

EXPERIENCE Visit a 350,000 acre working station with over 150 years of history just a short drive from the coastal resort town of Kalbarri. Murchison House Station has over 60km of rugged shoreline and over 30km of Murchison river flood plains. Because of the plentiful supply of water, with many permanent soaks and springs, the wildlife and bird life is abundant. The terrain is rugged, spectacular, and varied, ranging from coastal sand plains and dunes to red dirt and river gorge country and ancient gum trees. Wildflowers, when in season, are a stunning feature of the landscape. Activities include: fishing, birdwatching, swimming, kayaking and 4WD tracks. Quad Bike Tours and Canoe Safaris are also available. We welcome visitors from April to October.

YOUR HOSTS Belinda and Calum Carruth Phone: (08) 9937 1998 Email: [email protected] Web: www.murchisonhousestation.com.au 2 HAMELIN OUTBACK STATION STAY LOCATION: 1KM OFF THE SEALED SHARK BAY ROAD, AND 31KM FROM THE OVERLANDER ROADHOUSE. GPS: 26° 25’ 32” S 114° 11’ 34” E

ACCOMMODATION • Family, standard and twin rooms with communal facilities in the restored Shearers’ Quarters • Caravan and camping sites with access to powered amenities and kitchen facilities

EXPERIENCE Hamelin Station Reserve is a 202,000-hectare property managed and owned by one of Australia’s largest and most effective conservation organisations, Bush Heritage. Located on the shores of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, it is the ideal base from which to explore the region’s many attractions, including the dolphins of Monkey Mia, Francois Peron National Park, and the Hamelin Pool stromatolites - examples of some of the oldest life forms on Earth. Guests can choose from either the stunningly restored and renovated Shearers’ Quarters, or a range of caravan and camping sites, complete with fire pits, under the starry outback skies.

YOUR HOSTS Bush Heritage Australia Phone: (08) 9948 5145 Email: [email protected] Web: www.hamelinstationstay.com.au EXMOUTH Karijini Eco Retreat Auski Roadhouse Learmonth Exmouth Gulf Nanutarra Karijini Roadhouse Tom National 3 Park HAMELIN OUTBACK STATION STAY MELLENBYE STATION Price LOCATION: 1KM OFF THE SEALED SHARK BAY ROAD, LOCATION: MORAWA YALGOO ROAD, YALGOO, WA AND 31KM FROM THE OVERLANDER ROADHOUSE. GPS: 28°49’ 59 S 116°12’19”E Paraburdoo NEWMAN GPS: 26° 25’ 32” S 114° 11’ 34” E Capricorn Coral Roadhouse Bay Tropic of Capricorn

ACCOMMODATION • Camping/caravan sites - unpowered. Campground showers and toilets • Shearers quarters - single/double rooms (limited power avail) Minilya Roadhouse • Homestead Rooms - Queen with ensuite Mt. Augustus Tourist Park Lake Mount • Donga Rooms- Queen with ensuite MacLeod Augustus Kumarina Kennedy Range Nat. Park • Cabins - Queen with ensuite and limited cooking. National Park • Motel Style Rooms - Queen with ensuite with limited cooking • Cottages & Luxury Cottage - Queen with ensuite, fully self-contained Collier Range GASCOYNE National Park KINGSFORD SMITH ROUTE EXPERIENCE JUNCTION MAIL RUN Mellenbye Station Stay is on a working . Only four CARNARVON and a half hours from , just off a sealed road between Yalgoo and Morawa. Established in 1895 as a station, its stone Shark GLENBURGH STATION Carnegie shearing shed is impressive and provides a wonderful indoor area Bay Mt. Gould Lockup Lake for entertainment or a venue for your special function. With good (Ruins) Carnegie rainfall, the station and its surrounds produce a wonderful display Bilung Pool of everlastings, orchids and the famous wreath flower (Lechenaultia Monkey Canning Mia Wooramel Stock Route macrantha). Accommodation ranges from luxury cottages and Roadhouse Carnegie Station cabins, to donga rooms, homestead rooms and shearers quarters. Denham Peace Gorge Campers and caravans can enjoy a well-equipped camp kitchen, Wiluna showers both gas and donkey heated and flushing toilets. If HAMELIN OUTBACK 2 WOOL WAGON GUNBARRELL HWY you need time out from the stress of life and mobile phones, STATION STAY PATHWAY MEEKATHARRA Overlander Mt Yagahong then visit Mellenbye and simply enjoy the quiet of the station, sit Roadhouse by a campfire, relax and look at the wonderful evening stars. Errabiddy Bluff MURCHISON SETTLEMENT Crater Billabong Poona Afghan Rock YOUR HOST Roadhouse Emerald Mine Shelly Bogdan N Big Bell Phone: (08) 9972 3072 Walga Rock CUE

MINER’S PATHWAY Warburton Email: [email protected] Lake Austin MELANGATA Cosmo Newbery Web: www.mellenbye.com.au STATION Dalgaranga Leinster Crater 1 MURCHISON WAY Sandstone Agnew Sealed Major Road HOUSE STATION Amhitheatre Granites 16 Heritage Trail Sealed Minor Road Kalbarri MT. MAGNET Kalbarri SANDSTONE Unsealed Road OUTBACK Nat. Pk. GABYON YALGOO Sealed Pathways STATION Laverton Wreath Flowers Jokers Tunnel Unsealed Pathways Northhampton STATION Youanmi Lake Noondie Leonora Station Stay MULLEWA NALBARRA Fuel Available PINDAR STATION Gwalia Lake Carey "Anne Beadell Hwy" 20 Interpretive Site MELLENBYE 3 STATION Paynes Find Lake Morapoi 0 25 50 75 100 Gold Battery Ballard Station Kookynie Lake Lake Barlee Niagara Dam Raeside Scale in Kilometres Mingenew Morawa INDIAN OCEAN PAYNES FIND Dongara Menzies

Three Springs Lake Lake Yarra Lake Yarra Moore Rebecca Lakes

Ora Banda Wubin Broad Arrow Watheroo Dalwallinu Kalannie Beacon Badgingarra Bonnie Rock KALGOORLIE-BOULDER Mollerin Lake Koolyanobbing Miling Ballidu Coolgardie Cervantes Cadoux Bencubbin Moora Wongan Mukinbudin Bullfinch Kambalda Hills Koorda New Kununoppin Norcia Trayning Southern Cross Lake Nungarin Lefroy Lancelin Dowerin Westonia Boorabbin Wyalkatchem Nat. Park Widgiemooltha Merredin Marvel Loch Lake Meckering Tammin Cowan Toodyay Eucla Kellerberrin Cunderdin NORTHAM Kokerbin Bruce Rock Rock The Breakaways Fraser Norseman Range Lake Station York Johnston PERTH Midland Quairading Narembeen

Armadale Corrigin Karlgarin Wave Rock Lake Brookton Hope Lake Hyden Lake Dundas 2 Pingelly Kondinin Gilmore MANDURAH Kulin Frank Hann Wandering Yealering Nat. Park Lake Sharpe Peak Charles Salmon Gums Pinjarra Cuballing Nat. Park Wickepin Williams Narrogin Harrismith Lake King Grass Patch Lake Grace Newdegate Quindanning Kukerin Dumbleyung COLLIE Darkan Wagin Ravensthorpe Arid Nat. Park Cape BUNBURY Arthur Nyabing Munglinup Duranillin River Katanning Cape Naturaliste Stokes ESPERANCE Jerramungup Fitzgerald River Nat. Park Busselton Gnowangerup Hopetoun Cape Le Grand Kojonup National Park Nat. Park Ongerup Nannup Margaret Bridgetown River Manjimup Bremer Bay

Augusta Mt. Barker Cape Riche Cape Leeuwin Pemberton

Walpole Denmark ALBANY

SOUTHERN OCEAN 4 LOCATION: GABYON-TARDIE ROAD, YALGOO, WA GPS: 28° 14’ 58” S 116° 20’ 27” E

ACCOMMODATION • Unpowered Camping and Caravan sites • Shearers Quarters - 7 double rooms inc a single bed • Homestead Cottage - 3 queen rooms inc a single bed

EXPERIENCE Gabyon Station Stay is a working located in the striking red earth of the Murchison district. The Station is adjacent to the ‘Miners’ Pathways’ self-drive route where guests can enjoy the peace and tranquillity of the outback. Accommodation options include the homestead cottage, rustic shearers’ quarters, or unpowered caravan and camping sites; all situated 200km east of Geraldton and 54km from historic mining town Yalgoo. Activities include horse and motorbike trail rides, self-drive on the windmill tracks, birdlife and historic relics. You can gaze over hectares of wildflowers and an abundance of wildlife, or get your hands dirty and help out in the every-day life of the station - there is always plenty of work to be done! An outback BBQ area and fire pit are provided for guests to use otherwise you can book to have a delicious meal with your friendly hosts, to ensure you have the full experience of real outback station life.

YOUR HOSTS Gemma, Helen and Mike Cripps Phone (08) 9963 7993 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gabyon.com.au 5 MELANGATA STATION LOCATION: MELANGATA ROAD, YALGOO, WA GPS: 27°48’12.2”S 116°53’06.7”E

ACCOMMODATION • Hosted Homestead Rooms - King and Queen rooms • Shearers Quarters • Elegant Bell Tent with supplied camping equipment • Camping and caravan sites - unpowered

EXPERIENCE Melangata Station is situated in the Yalgoo region of and has a unique homestead which was designed by the Priest Architect, Monsignor John Hawes. The Homestead is the only privately owned residential John Hawes designed building in Australia, which is being lovingly restored to welcome guests. Melangata is a haven for over 45 different species of birds, hopping mice, fat tailed dunnarts and micro bats. The station boasts abundant wildflowers after good winter rains. We offer guided and tag along station tours to spectacular locations, homestead tours, bush glamping, camp oven cooking classes plus more. Melangata has always been a sheep station, running mostly sheep until the early 2000’s. Now, damara dorper cross meat sheep graze the pasture at the station.

YOUR HOSTS Jo Clews and Ken Darnell Phone: (08) 9963 7777 Email: [email protected] Web: www.joclewscooking.com 6 WOOLEEN STATION LOCATION: TWIN PEAKS WOOLEEN ROAD, MURCHISON, WA GPS: 27° 05’ 15” S 116° 09’ 40” E

ACCOMMODATION • Hosted Homestead rooms - 7 queen rooms • Self-Contained Guesthouses - 2 houses • Nature based remote camping - unpowered

EXPERIENCE Covering a quarter of a million acres of picturesque rangelands, Wooleen is a cattle station playing a leading role in regenerating and sustaining the unique biodiversity of the region. Guided sunset tours include the nationally important Wooleen Lake, seasonal wildflowers, aboriginal heritage, colonial history and spectacular granite outcrops. On tour you’ll learn about the longevity of the arid plants, their palatability and indicators, and why food security and sustainability is so important for the future. Hire a mountain bike (or bring your own) and make use of the exciting bike trails. Walking or hiking trails, self-drive routes, bird-watching, and a museum are also available. The Homestead, built in 1918, offers seven elegant bedrooms for guests, along with plenty of tranquil spots for enjoying freshly baked afternoon tea and a good book. Alternatively, enjoy the spacious self-contained rammed earth Guesthouses or adventure out to a secluded campsite with friends. Open each year from April to October with advance booking essential.

YOUR HOSTS Frances and David Pollock Phone: (08) 9963 7973 Email: [email protected] Web: www.wooleen.com.au 7 GLENBURGH STATION LOCATION: DALGETY DOWNS-GLENBURGH ROAD, UPPER GASCOYNE, WA GPS: 25° 26’ 02” S 116° 06’ 48” E

ACCOMMODATION • Unpowered camping and caravan sites on Geeranoo creek

EXPERIENCE Glenburgh Station showcases 4 generations of proud family history, giving tourists the opportunity to experience authentic station life whilst enjoying the rustic beauty the Gascoyne region has to offer. Travellers can explore the natural wonders of the region through one of the many self-drive tours or bushwalks, immerse in the fascinating family and local history or simply just relax and enjoy the tranquillity by the banks of the Geeranoo creek. Rustic toilets and showers are available and hot water is provided from the donkey (wood fired hot water system). Glenburgh Station Stay provides a truly unique and history enriched nature stay idyllically located 210km from Mount Augustus, the world’s largest rock. Open each year from April to October.

YOUR HOSTS The Collins Family Phone: 0447173287 Email: [email protected] Web: www.glenburghstationstay.com 8 KIRKALOCKA STATION LOCATION: THE GREAT NORTHERN HIGHWAY, 60KMS SOUTH OF MOUNT MAGNET, WA GPS: 28° 33’ 25” S 117° 46’ 45” E

ACCOMMODATION • Homestead rooms - double, single and twin • Shearers’ Quarters - double, single and twin • Camping and caravan sites.

EXPERIENCE Outback history, hospitality and nature! Explore the station surrounds, visit our famous watering hole ‘The Kirkalocka Creek’, bird watch, mud hut museum, shearing shed and unique scenery Homestead rooms are comfortable accompanied with wide veranda and refreshing gardens. The shearing quarters include an alfresco and BBQ area. Both have kitchen, dining and bathroom facilities. Enjoy an evening meal, cooked breakfast or delicious morning or afternoon tea with prior arrangement. Kirkalocka is a beautiful location with a rich history. We enjoy sharing our stories of this special place in the outback and hearing yours, from all over Australia and the world! You will be warmly welcomed at Kirkalocka Station.

YOUR HOSTS Jared & Blair Ridley Phone: (08) 9963 5827 Email: [email protected] Web: www.kirkalocka.com 9 NALBARRA STATION LOCATION: BURNABINMAH-NALBARRA ROAD, MOUNT MAGNET, WA GPS: 28° 38’ 59” S 117° 36’ 32” E

ACCOMMODATION • Shearers Quarters - 7 double rooms, 2 twin share rooms and 7 single rooms • Self-contained 2 bedroom cottage • Camping and caravan sites

EXPERIENCE A working sheep station nestled in stunning breakaway country. Set on 161,000 hectares, Nalbarra is the perfect destination for holidaymakers travelling the Great Northern Highway. Self-contained cottage or shearers quarters with kitchen, wood stove, dining room, Telstra mobile service, showers & toilets and BBQ area. Caravanners and campers are most welcome to make use of the powered or unpowered sites. Enjoy a day on the station bush tracks to go prospecting, see wild flowers, bird watching & break away country. Make use of the dartboard before dinner. Ideal for large groups, clubs and touring companies and is pet friendly. BBQ meat packs available for purchase. Located 70km north of Paynes Find, 17km off Great Northern Hwy on Burnabinmah-Nalbarra Rd. Bookings from 2nd April through to end of September 2021.

YOUR HOSTS Robert and Leanne Lefroy Phone: (08) 9963 5829 Email: [email protected] Web: www.nalbarra.com.au

www.wastationstays.com.au EXMOUTH Karijini Eco Retreat Auski Roadhouse Learmonth Exmouth Gulf Nanutarra Karijini Roadhouse Tom National Price Park

Paraburdoo NEWMAN Capricorn Coral Roadhouse Bay Tropic of Capricorn

Minilya Roadhouse Mt. Augustus Tourist Park Lake Mount MacLeod Augustus Kumarina Kennedy Range Nat. Park National Park

Collier Range GASCOYNE National Park KINGSFORD SMITH ROUTE JUNCTION MAIL RUN CARNARVON 7 Shark GLENBURGH STATION Carnegie Bay Mt. Gould Lockup Lake (Ruins) Carnegie Bilung Pool Monkey Canning Mia Wooramel Stock Route Roadhouse Carnegie Station Denham Peace Gorge Wiluna

HAMELIN OUTBACK 2 WOOL WAGON GUNBARRELL HWY STATION STAY PATHWAY MEEKATHARRA Overlander Mt Yagahong Roadhouse Errabiddy Bluff MURCHISON

SETTLEMENT Yarrabubba Crater Billabong Poona Afghan Rock Roadhouse WOOLEEN STATION Emerald Mine N 6 Big Bell Walga Rock CUE

MINER’S PATHWAY Warburton Lake Austin MELANGATA Cosmo Newbery 5 STATION Dalgaranga Leinster Crater 1 MURCHISON WAY Sandstone Agnew Sealed Major Road HOUSE STATION Amhitheatre Granites 16 Heritage Trail Sealed Minor Road Kalbarri MT. MAGNET Kalbarri SANDSTONE Unsealed Road OUTBACK Nat. Pk. GABYON YALGOO Sealed Pathways STATION Laverton Wreath Flowers Jokers Tunnel 8 Unsealed Pathways Northhampton 4 KIRKALOCKA STATION Youanmi Lake Noondie Leonora Station Stay MULLEWA NALBARRA Fuel Available PINDAR STATION Gwalia Lake 9 Carey "Anne Beadell Hwy" 20 Interpretive Site MELLENBYE GERALDTON 3 STATION Paynes Find Lake Morapoi 0 25 50 75 100 Gold Battery Ballard Station Kookynie Lake Lake Barlee Niagara Dam Raeside Scale in Kilometres Mingenew Morawa INDIAN OCEAN PAYNES FIND Dongara Menzies

Three Springs Lake Lake Yarra Lake Yarra Moore Rebecca Lakes

Ora Banda Wubin Broad Arrow Watheroo Dalwallinu Kalannie Beacon Badgingarra Bonnie Rock KALGOORLIE-BOULDER Mollerin Lake Koolyanobbing Miling Ballidu Coolgardie Cervantes Cadoux Bencubbin Moora Wongan Mukinbudin Bullfinch Kambalda Hills Koorda New Kununoppin Norcia Trayning Southern Cross Lake Nungarin Lefroy Lancelin Dowerin Westonia Boorabbin Wyalkatchem Nat. Park Widgiemooltha Merredin Marvel Loch Lake Meckering Tammin Cowan Toodyay Eucla Kellerberrin Cunderdin NORTHAM Kokerbin Bruce Rock Rock The Breakaways Fraser Norseman Range Lake Station York Johnston PERTH Midland Quairading Narembeen

Armadale Corrigin Karlgarin Wave Rock Lake Brookton Hope Lake Hyden Lake Dundas 2 Pingelly Kondinin Gilmore MANDURAH Kulin Frank Hann Wandering Yealering Nat. Park Lake Sharpe Peak Charles Salmon Gums Pinjarra Cuballing Nat. Park Wickepin Williams Narrogin Harrismith Lake King Grass Patch Lake Grace Newdegate Quindanning Kukerin Dumbleyung COLLIE Darkan Wagin Ravensthorpe Arid Nat. Park Cape BUNBURY Arthur Nyabing Munglinup Duranillin River Katanning Cape Naturaliste Stokes ESPERANCE Jerramungup Fitzgerald River Nat. Park Busselton Gnowangerup Hopetoun Cape Le Grand Kojonup National Park Nat. Park Ongerup Nannup Margaret Bridgetown River Manjimup Bremer Bay

Augusta Mt. Barker Cape Riche Cape Leeuwin Pemberton

Walpole Denmark ALBANY

SOUTHERN OCEAN THE GASCOYNE MURCHISON OUTBACK PATHWAYS FEATURE THREE SELF-DRIVE TRAILS WHICH TRAVERSE THE RED HEART OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. EACH TRAIL IS COMPLEMENTED BY A SERIES OF ROADSIDE INTERPRETATIVE SIGNAGE, WHICH OPENS YOUR EYES TO THE WONDER OF THIS ANCIENT LANDSCAPE - ITS HISTORY, NATURE AND ITS CHARISMATIC CHARACTERS CREATING THE PERFECT LINK BETWEEN MID-WEST STATION STAYS. Accompanying the trails is a guidebook that takes readers on a journey and delves deep into the three unique drive routes - The Wool Wagon Pathway, The Kingsford Smith Mail Run and The Miners Pathway. It examines the rich indigenous history, the arrival of European explorers and the establishment of the pastoral and mining industries. Purchase your copy of the 178-page colour Gascoyne Murchison Outback Pathways Guidebook online and consider the pathways as part of your Station Stay adventure. www.outbackpathways.com #outbackpathways

PLANNING YOUR JOURNEY Many of the Mid-West Station Stays are located on remote roads between smaller outback towns. Be sure to book your accommodation or check availability at the Stations before you leave on holiday. Similarly, plan your fuel stops and provisions carefully. Most of the roads are gravel and are kept in excellent condition by local shires, but be prepared to check road condition reports before departure as many remote areas lack mobile coverage. Have the capacity to carry emergency supplies and inform a friend or family member of your intended travel route. The ideal time to travel the Mid-West is between April and October, when the weather is cooler (generally between 20°-30°C). The summer months are very hot and many Station Stays close their doors during this time. Local visitor centres can assist you with your planning. You are strongly urged to buy a good quality and up-to-date map of the region. for extra guidance contact station stays directly or visit www.wastationstays.com.au