Explore Western Australia

Explore Western Australia

Tuesday 29 April 2014

Geraldton

- Geraldton is the capital of Western Australia's Mid West region and the gateway to the amazing Abrolhos Islands.
 

- 424km north of Perth, the beautiful leisurely drive can now be enjoyed up the coast along the Indian Ocean Drive.

- Geraldton is the hub of the Mid West region, with a world leading rock lobster fishery, farming and agriculture and the production of iron ore, making it a truly thriving and sustainable regional city. 

- The city is home to the Port of Geraldton, a major west coast seaport.

- Geraldton is an important service and logistics centre for regional mining, fishing, wheat, sheep and tourism industries.


 
















Friday 25 April 2014

ANZAC DAY (Lest We Forget)

Picture was taken in Eucla, Western Australia. It is located approximately 1429km east of Perth and 13km west of The South Australian border.
 




Friday 18 April 2014

RAAF Base Pearce, Western Australia

 - RAAF Base Pearce located in Bullsbrook, 42.5km north of Perth. It is used for training by the RAAF and the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

- Pearce is the busiest RAAF base in the country in terms of total aircraft movements, including civil movements at the Joint User bases. Although its primary role is pilot training, it remains the only permanent Air Force base on the west coast, and thus has a significant logistics role.

- RAAF Base Pearce was officially granted "station" status on 6 February 1939.

-  It was named in honour of Sir George Pearce, a long-standing Senator from Western Australia.

- Pearce was elected to the inaugural Senate in 1901 and remained a Senator for Western Australia until 1938.



Thursday 17 April 2014

London Court, Perth

- Built in 1937 as a combination of residential and commercial premises for a wealthy gold miner and financier Claude de Bernales, Perth's London Court is designed using the architectural features present in Elizabethan times.


- London Court attracts local and international visitors with its friendly, inviting atmosphere and unique architectural style making it superbly different to the sky scrapers it is nestled under in the City of Perth.
  
- The only walk in the world outside Britain that has captured a setting and atmosphere so similar to that of Tudor England, London Court is a retail walkway running between Hay Street Mall and St Georges Terrace in the heart of Perth.
 
 
 


Tuesday 8 April 2014

Katanning

- Katanning is located about 290 km south of Perth and 170 km north of Albany.

- Its economic strengths are in agriculture and the largest sheep salesyard in the Southern hemisphere.

- The meat and livestock industry is the second largest argricultural contributor to WA and Katanning features one of four recognised salesyard.

- Katanning has a relatively large Muslim population.


Katanning Railway Station
Katanning Railway Station
Katanning Railway Station

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Augusta

- Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia.

- Augusta is located 322 km (200 mi) south of Perth.

-  The town of Augusta is a best kept secret which lies on the south-western tip of Australia.

- The Augusta region of South-West Western Australia is one of the most attractive holiday areas in Australia.


- To view the wilderness of Cape Leeuwin nearby and absorb the realisation that this is where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet makes Augusta seem like a last frontier.

- It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent.