by Jeanette | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
Chalet 3 in the Hopetoun Motel and Chalet Village is a comfortable, quiet, self-contained villa set amongst attractive gardens. It has two-bedrooms, sleeps 5, separate bathroom, fully-equipped kitchen, living area with TV & DVD. Linen supplied. Reasonable rates...
by Jeanette | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
Modern motel built in rammed earth, in the centre of Hopetoun. Motel units and self contained units, with ensuites. Tel: (08) 98383219 Email: hopeymotel@bigpond.com ...
by Jeanette | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
Situated on Munglinup Beach Road off Springdale Road, 30km east of Ravensthorpe. Weekender cottages, 2 bedroom units, motel room, park cabins, powered sites, tent sites and backpacker vans. Laundry and BBQ facilities. Canoeing, fishing, bird watching, 3km to safe...
by Jeanette | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
Turn off South Coast Highway. Camp sites, single rooms, BBQs, showers, laundry, campers kitchen, self contained cabins, backpackers unit. Tel: (08) 98 381 050, Email: clare@ravensthorpecp.com.au, Green Haven Tourist Park...
by rws-admin | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
12 Jamieson Street, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia 6346. Quiet, clean, comfortable units. Single, double or twin and family rooms available. Competitive rates. Tel: (08) 9838 1053 https://ravensthorpemotel.com.au/ email:...
by Jeanette | Apr 9, 2018 | Environment, General
Dieback (Phytophthora dieback) is a disease that presents a very real threat to our native species. A fungus that exists in mud and soil, it affects more than 40 per cent of native plant species and has the ability to forever alter some of our bushland by killing off...
by Jeanette | Apr 9, 2018 | Herbarium
The West Australian Herbarium initiated a Regional Herbaria Programme in 1997, and the Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show Committee were invited to participate. It set out with the lofty aim of collecting every flowering plant in the Shire of Ravensthorpe. As the shire...
by Jeanette | Apr 5, 2018 | Environment
Dr Gillian Craig is a botanist living on a farm near Ravensthorpe. She wrote the following in 2010: A timeline 3000 million years ago – volcanic activity around Ravensthorpe caused lava to flow across the surface to form black basalt. This has weathered to develop...
by Jeanette | Apr 5, 2018 | Environment
Andy Chapman is a zoologist living on the edge of the Fitzgerald River National Park, near Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. The following text is a copy of a brief address, one of several, given at the official opening of Julia Bell’s Eremia Camel Treks on 20 April 2008....