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June 01st, 2001
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Perth Hills
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
What prompts an intelligent, business-minded woman to love Llamas? When owner/manager Wendy Fandry found herself in charge of a 30 acre property in the beautiful Perth Hills following her divorce, she had no way of knowing she'd be creating an icon.
Margaret River
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
Fanny found herself at the lip of a yawning crater filled with weathered stalactites and fallen boulders, some fifty metres across and plunging thirty metres deep.
Great Southern
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
In the early 1820's, the British knew they had to claim the west coast for themselves. As Malcolm Traill, local studies librarian for the City of Albany explains, 'It killed two birds with one stone to claim the west before the French did and take up some of the overflow
Peel
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
Opened in 1994 and due for a landscaping facelift worth over $100,000, the Cut has restored the Estuary’s former glory as home to thousands of migrating wetland birds, abundant marine life and of course, the irrepressible dolphins.
Blackwood River Valley
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
Besides the well-known wineries and apple orchards, pomegranates, chestnuts, quinces, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries and persimmons all flower or grow at different times of the year.
Pemberton
June 01st, 2001
June 01st, 2001
This low level of impact, together with reservation of forest areas by CALM, has meant that even though the logging industry is in good health, vast areas of forests can remain untouched, their ecosystems intact so they live long into the future.