Golden Outback

Western Australia is the country’s largest State, representing a third of Australia’s land area. When you realise that over half of that expanse falls within just one region – WA’s Golden Outback – you begin to get a sense of scale of just how vast this huge slice of Western Australia is and of course, how much there is to discover.

Stretching from the South Australia border across the Nullarbor Plain it takes in the south eastern coastline and encompasses the Western Australian Wheatbelt to the east of Perth and the fields of wildflowers that WA is famous for, and reaches to just south of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Just 340km southeast of Perth is one of the region’s highlights – Wave Rock – towering 15m high and stretching for 100m it was formed 2.7 billion years ago and is one of Australia’s iconic natural sites. As if the rich colours of WA’s landscape weren’t already striking, the vivid pink waters of Lake Hillier on Middle Island off Esperance, bordered by green forests, white sands and turquoise seas look more like an artist’s palette than the work of nature.

Kalgoorlie, in Australia’s Golden Outback, is home to one of the world’s largest open-cut gold mines. The gold rush that began here in the 1890s was a major catalyst for the growth of WA and the town retains some of its grand buildings of the gold rush era. From gold to golf and if you are a keen golfer then you might have come to the right place. The world’s longest golf course – the Nullarbor Links – lies along the Eyre Highway, stretching for a staggering 1,365km from Kalgoorlie to Ceduna.

Western Australia’s Golden Outback is both colourful and surprising.