Hutt River Province (WA) - 45th Anniversary Celebration Weekend - 25/26th April 2015

Weevil · Guru

Hutt River Province (WA) - 45th Anniversary Celebration Weekend - 25/26th April 2015

hako · Guru

We stayed there about 10 months ago and except for the hot water running out in the shower we had an enjoyable stay. Caught yabbies down in the creek where there are some magical fairy rings etc.
It was getting a bit run down however and our opinion then was that it was basically running out of steam. Good Luck to them.

Bevandy2 · Senior Member

Great to see they are still in business.
As a company rep in the late seventies stationed in Geraldton, one trip I took the family with me during school hols and we visited Leonard at Hutt River.

The royal prince was caught out in the yards drafting sheep as we arrived, most unprincely we thought, but had a good presentation for the tourists.
We enjoyed it, he has had much publicity over the years, always a good tourist attraction, and worth a visit.

We wish them well, they have endured the hype and ridicule over many decades, and kept the farm viable. If you ever want to stop the world and get off, try Hutt River Province.

Bevan

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Loved our couple of days visiting Prince Leonard and his farm - had a tour with him at the little "museum" - the chapel is a wonder, and I think a tribute to the Prince's late wife.

It is a working farm, so no airs and graces, just hard farm work, which keeps the family busy.

Weevil · Guru

Magic place to visit Jules, I think they have done it up a bit since your visit.

Bruce and Bev · Guru

we were there late last year. The Prince is very frail now and uses a walking frame when going any distance. Seems to spend most of his working day in the museum where he loves talking to visitors.

One of the sons is now running the "tourist compound" and camping area and when we were there they had a heap of tradies working around the place - we understood a lot of work is going into up-grading the camp area.

The other sons run the mixed farm of various grains (mainly wheat), cattle and sheep.

If you are planning on visiting and taking your 'van with you - have a look on a map (yeah - that paper stuff) first. There are two ways into the Hutt. The most northern one had more tar sealed road and graded metal road and wont destroy anything. There is a southern route out back onto the H/W which is narrow, winding and bloody rough - Im glad we weren't towing our van that day !!

Weevil · Guru

We came in off the main Hwy via Binnu, all bitumen except the last 14 kms which was good graded gravel road.

I believe the road in from the Kalbarri coastal road is quite rough and no bitumen, but I haven't been that way.