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A holiday experience like no other
Are you looking to escape the crowds? Are you looking to take the road less travelled? Are you looking for a new experience, an adventure that you will not stop talking about? Have you considered visiting a WA Station Stay?
Station stays are not a new thing. For many years, city folk would go and spend time on relatives' or friends’ pastoral leases during the school holidays, lending a hand during shearing or helping to fix fences. That’s how the love affair started for me. That is where the call of the red dirt ingrained itself just under my skin, becoming a part of me. Growing up, many school holidays were spent in the saddle of my trusty motorbike, mustering mobs of sheep amongst the bluebush and mulga scrub of the eastern goldfields or working the dusty sheep yards during shearing.
I was fortunate, growing up with parents and an extended family who already had a connection with this magnificent country, but for the majority, these experiences were way off in the never never. Australia’s economic conditions have vastly changed, and we no longer financially ride on the sheep’s back. Pastoral leases, once sprawling enterprises with tens of thousands of sheep to care for are slowly becoming relegated to history. Resource booms, pests, droughts and other factors have all contributed to closing down many stations. For those that remain, diversification is their only hope of survival. Offering a glimpse into station life or access to an attraction found on their property is a great way for stations to diversify their income. Living in Western Australia, we are spoilt for choice as to where we can experience Bullara Station Cheela Plains Station something new on a station stay. Warroora Station Here are but 11.
Quobba Station
Carnegie Station
Hamelin Station
Murchison House Station Wooleen Station
