Oasis in the outback

Louie and Halle check out the old shearer's quarters

We're back!

Crossing from Western Australia into South Australia is a hard slog, either way. The driving is relentless, your mind wanders, roadhouses serve the same crappy fast food, it's a long way between toilet stops and most accommodation is at the back of roadhouses, or campsites are in roadside rest stops, just metres from a busy highway.
One amazing place is bucking the trend and offering travellers comfortable accommodation options, two course meals each night, and an Australian history lesson thrown in for free. Fraser Range Station is a former 440,000 acre sheep station located in between Norseman and Belladonia. We stayed there when we headed west and I knew it would be one of those stops we just had to come back to going the other way.
The staff and owners are incredibly hospitable, the camp kitchen and BBQ area are the best I've encountered in my travels, and the scenery is stunning. It's about 2km off the highway so we didn't hear any traffic noise.
The gardens are a blooming feat in the middle of the dusty outback and I love how they've thrown in old farm equipment as garden ornaments. The station calls itself an oasis in the outback and it lives up to the claim.
I can't recommend this stop highly enough.