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As pretty as an airport*

Airports aren’t known for their aesthetics – well, apart from Vancouver which is outstanding – but I discovered that we do have at least one very nicely designed airport in Western Australia, and in an unlikely place.

Why I think Geraldton is an unlikely place no doubt comes from some regional prejudice I must harbour towards the town which I haven’t rated for it’s design qualities in the past (although the new foreshore is a dramatic improvement).

It’s the Greenough airport, and it is a very pleasant experience indeed.  High ceilings, an aquarium, a display of aeronautic history – it feels more like a trendy museum than an airport.

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*The title of this post comes from this quote:

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘as pretty as an airport.’ —Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988

A rose by any other name

At the airport a couple of weeks ago I was sharing a table at the cafe with a rather good looking chap who was on his way to Cloudbreak.

Cloudbreak, I thought, doesn’t that sound like a lovely destination…
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Well it is, if you like mining operations.

I guess calling it “big pile of red dirt” isn’t quite the same.

The house-sitting chemist

On a recent trip to Geraldton, I was looking for another camera bag after I lost the second one in two weeks and a hostess gift for dinner that night – and as luck would have it, not only did the local chemist include a camera shop it also had a Darrell Lea stand. Brilliant.

I took my camera bag and box of hard centres to the counter and I met Kristy.

Kristy’s story

Kristy has lived in Geraldton for about two and a half years. Originally from Adelaide, Kristy and her husband Bruce decided to up sticks and travel around Australia. They bought a four wheel drive and a caravan and signed up as housesitters.

For seven years (seven!) they travelled everywhere. They soon became known as trustworthy sorts and were in high demand – getting repeat business they were lukewarm about taking – it was kind of “been there done that”.

“I loved the adventure of sleeping in someone else’s sheets, in someone else’s bed with someone else’s view… it wasn’t the same if we’d already stayed there.”

They stayed in all sorts of houses, several of them home to millionaires and in between stayed and travelled in their caravan. They couldn’t imagine settling down.

One day, they were travelling to Halls Creek in the North-East Kimberley. Halls Creek was one of the places where gold was discovered for the first time in WA. I think it was second after Ennuin. You can also catch a small plane to fly over Purnululu National Park to see the Bungle Bungles and you might stay here if you want to visit the Wolfe Creek Crater. It’s the town at the northern end of the Canning Stock Route. It’s remote.

Anyway as they travelled along the highway towing their caravan they were caught in a willy willy. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it’s like a dust devil or whirlwind, a very small tornado.

The caravan was swept up and bashed against an embankment and as it was thrown up so was the four wheel drive.

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Time seemed to slow as it does in those life-threatening situations, Bruce turned to Kristy and told her that he couldn’t do anything and he was sorry but he thought they were going to die.

The 4WD flipped but the caravan snapped them back and the car crashed to the ground.

The car and the caravan were completely written off. Shattered.

Kristy and Bruce walked free.

The truck driver couldn’t believe it – he was sure they were both going to be dead.

Kristy and Bruce took the loss of their trailer and 4WD as a sign that maybe it was time to settle down and, after briefly checking out Mandurah (why do people live there? asks Kristy) and Perth as too cold, settled in Geraldton to be near their daughter.

Thank you Kristy for telling me your story – it was inspirational.

PS:  I should say in the interest of accuracy that Kristy isn’t actually a chemist,  she does work at the Chemist though.  (If you’re in the US, a chemist is a drug store or pharmacy)

Flashback to the Polly Pipe opening

Growing up with an civil engineer for a dad meant that we went to a lot of openings of big infrastructure projects.

Stirling Bridge
This is me and my brother at the opening of the Stirling Bridge in Fremantle. There is a better photo somewhere but I can’t find it.

I’ve crawled through the middle of the Stirling Bridge (Dad’s first project as project manager), I was been there when they cut the ribbon on the Mount Henry Bridge…

So perhaps it’s only natural that I’ve taken my kids to similar events.

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Opening of the Graham Farmer Freeway Tunnel

My kids certainly look more happy to be there than I did at Dad’s bridge!

For those of you not from Perth – we Australians have a habit of nicknaming infrastructure… well anything really… and it wasn’t long before Graham “Polly” Farmer, lent his nickname to the tunnel – hence the Polly Pipe.

Picnic at Elachbutting Rock

On the way back from the station last week we stopped by Elachbutting Rock. This granite outcrop is one of many in the area but a bit more special because of Monty’s pass – where part of the rock has sheared off and created a tunnel, and the Rock Wave…. cunningly a little like Wave Rock would you believe.

Elachbutting Rock

Elachbutting Rock

The Shire says the name Elachbutting is thought to mean “that large thing standing”. Cute. And also according to the Westonia Shire: “Elachbutting has a reputation for being bigger, better and more pristine than any Wheatbelt granite rock formation that you may have seen before.”

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Before I go… would you have been slightly concerned that your kids might have fallen off the side of the rock?

Elachbutting Rock

Dust Storm near Mukinbudin

Driving home on Tuesday after a beautiful morning at Elachbutting Rock – photos to come – we drove through a vicious dust storm.

Dust storm near Mukinbudin

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Station country moments

We’ve just come back from four days on the station. Every time I go I wonder why it has taken me so long to go back.

This time it didn’t rain while I was there but the winter temperatures made walking a pleasure.

We taught the kids how to drive – Hugamuga driving by himself by the last day – and well. I love the fact that my city kids get the chance to practice driving on the station where there are no cars and just the odd bush to avoid.

I found it hard to cull the photos for this post, but if you’re really keen feel free to check out the set on Flickr.

Ennuin July 2008
Sunrise over Lake Deborah – it was very cold.

Ennuin July 2008
Lake Deborah could do with some rain.

Ennuin July 2008
My arty bark shot.

Ennuin July 2008
Dad rigged up a mini-water trough for the birds and set it high so the roos don’t get all the water.

Ennuin July 2008
Watching the cattle.

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Ennuin July 2008
Face off at Ennuin Station.

Ennuin July 2008
Cracked earth near Gnamma Dam.

Ennuin July 2008
Help or hindrance?

Ennuin July 2008
East dam made for some fun leaping moments but no one got wet… this time.

Ennuin July 2008
Learning to drive.

Ennuin July 2008
Sun setting over No 1 Dam

Ennuin July 2008
An old billy says our new picnic spot has already been discovered.

Ennuin July 2008
Sunset over Ennuin Station

View the whole set.

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Stirling Highway Icon

In the olden days when I was a young reporter based in Bunbury (two hours south of Perth) and in love with a young salesman living in a flat in Cottesloe… bless him, he taped my rural report on rye grass and apple scab over his ex-girlfriend’s tape of favourite songs… I used to make the the trip to Perth nearly every weekend.

I knew I was almost at his place when I saw this sign – painted on the Allied Mills in North Fremantle:

Dingo Flour mill

The Dingo Flour sign – associated with the notorious entrepreneur Alan Bond – in his younger, sign-painting days – even though apparently he never actually painted it – is an icon on Stirling Highway.

To me it always signals the end of a long journey.

When I stopped there the other day to take this photo I got a bit carried away…
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Dingo Flour mill

Dingo Flour mill

Dingo Flour mill

Dingo Flour mill

And that young salesman was of course, my Groover.

Eighties flashback to Atlantis Marine Park

A recent post on The Worst From Perth made me laugh… and remember one of the first dates I went on with Groover.

We went up to Atlantis Marine Park to see the Dolphin show… It must have closed pretty soon after and the dolphins went to Underwater World – now AQWA. It was a pretty sad story actually because the dolphins had been caught in the wild. They had some babies. By the time the dolphin show thing stopped, they couldn’t reacclimatise so they went to Underwater World. And then, as we know just a few years ago the last three dolphins died mysteriously.

Anyway back to Atlantis Marine Park… there were all these limestone statues in a big circle and we had fun getting up close and personal with them…

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Okay, perhaps not the best look, but this was before we got really PC in the mid-nineties…

I always wondered what happened to them… and now I know thanks to TWOP!