Western Australia, Australia
Western Australia bed and breakfast stays in Perth and elsewhere
Western Australia (WA) covers one-third of Australia but it does not boast one third of all Australia’s bed and breakfast accommodation! Most B&B stays are to be had in the capital of Perth. Western Australia is larger than Western Europe and more than twice the size of Texas but it has a population only one-sixth that of London. It is bordered in the east by South Australia and the Northern Territory and in the west by the Indian Ocean, with the Timor Sea to the north. Perth is the usual stopover destination en route to the rest of Australia and many B&Bs, lodges and inns cater for the stopover trade. WA is of course famous for its mineral wealth in iron, nickel, bauxite, oil, natural gas, gold and diamonds.
Western Australia is known to be a bleak and vast part of the world and admittedly Perth is regarded as being an extremely isolated city. It is situated nearly two thousand miles from Adelaide, about the distance from London to Moscow. Isolated it may be, but Perth is vibrant and innovative. The Northbridge district is jammed with shops, restaurants and galleries. Perth also has some of Australia's best inner-city beaches.
Early settlers there whaled and farmed pearls off the coast and of course prospected for gold in the bright orange outback. But not all of the state is bare desert, such as the Kimberley region to the north. In the middle of the state there are wildflower kingdoms, jungles and waterfalls, and Pilbara’s landscape includes some of the world’s oldest rock formations. Not many West Australia bed and breakfast visitors realize that the beneath the sea that hugs the state is a huge, western coral reef to rival the Great Barrier reef off the eastern shores of Australia. Western Australia also boasts rolling, emerald pastures to the south.
Western Australia has great beaches and many bed and breakfast visitors are there to take advantage of water sport facilities. A popular beach resort is Rottnest Island. There are also many excellent mainland beaches, particularly around Perth. Kimberley, in the far north, is one of the oldest areas on earth, geologically speaking. In the northwest there are two attractions that are regularly visited by Western Australia bed and breakfast visitors: Wolf Creek Crater, an immense crater left in the desert by a giant meteorite 50,000 years ago, and the Bungle Bungles, an ancient sandstone mass over 1 000 square miles in area. Southeast of Perth, near Hyden, is the 2,700-million-year-old Wave Rock.
