Help Baudin, Freycinet, Hamelin and Leeuwin celebrate the important role the Capes Naturaliste and Leeuwin played in WA’s history! Cape Naturaliste, the northernmost point of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, has a rich history, starting with the Wardandi Aboriginal people who called it Kwirreejeenungup, meaning "the place with the beautiful view". In 1801. French explorer Nicolas Baudin […]
Once a quarter, on a Sunday, our beloved volunteers and donors come together to plant all the donated and sponsored trees in the Naturaliste Habitat Corridor. They also help with ongoing efforts to ensure its functionality, including controlling weeds and feral animals, maintaining fences and restoration of degraded areas. They are the vital link in […]
In the first of our Banquet in the Breezeway series, we start with a fabulous Winter Wonderland Christmas in July pop-up dinner in the breezeway of the Naturaliste Equestrian Centre. We celebrate the festive season in the cool of winter. A time for Margaret River mulled wine, eggnog made from our organic eggs, fruit mince […]
Once a month we gather some of the world’s leading experts in ethology, neuroscience and biomechanics to discuss research into the training of horses to better understand and enhance horse welfare and improve the horse–rider relationship. All horse owners are welcome, from the most experienced to the absolute beginner. We come together with one goal: […]
We'd love to live permanently in a cheese cave, because cheese, in all its salty, fatty majesty, could well be the king of foods. We have all at some point found ourselves standing in front of a dimly lit fromage room with its bewildering array of European, American (mostly Vermont and Wisconsin) and local cheese, […]
Cheese is one of the great pleasures of life and should be mixed with one of the other great pleasures of life, wine, as often as possible. We know that there are plenty of people (serious wine lovers among them) who feel that thinking too hard about wine and food matching is a level of […]
Once a quarter, on a Sunday, our beloved volunteers and donors come together to plant all the donated and sponsored trees in the Naturaliste Habitat Corridor. They also help with ongoing efforts to ensure its functionality, including controlling weeds and feral animals, maintaining fences and restoration of degraded areas. They are the vital link in […]
That primal screaming you hear across Geographe Bay from time-to-time, manifests from a charcuterie purist seeing grazing boards - a crazed extravaganza of sauces, dips, dried fruits, olives, sugared almonds, chocolates, meats and maybe even a Lego set - being described as charcuterie boards. There is terrible faux-artisan charcuterie out there, an unedifying jumbled chaos […]
Though spring can be chilly on the Naturaliste Cape, the return of the bright and gently warming sun wakes dormant plants and seeds from their slumber, coaxes birds out to build their nests and beckons to the insects that sheltered through winter in undergrowth, nooks and crannies to emerge and flit about in the cool […]
Once a month we gather some of the world’s leading experts in ethology, neuroscience and biomechanics to discuss research into the training of horses to better understand and enhance horse welfare and improve the horse–rider relationship. All horse owners are welcome, from the most experienced to the absolute beginner. We come together with one goal: […]
Come and see the DunsBros in the main arena at the Margaret River Show. Performances happen every hour on both days of the show between 11am and 2pm. Baudin, Freycinet and Hamelin, the Sanctuary's gorgeous glossy gentlemen, are exemplars of evidence-based training principles and perform amazing feats at liberty, completely free of restraint. Under a […]
Come and see the DunsBros perform in the main arena of the Brunswick Junction Show. Performances happen every hour on both days of the show between 11am and 2pm. Baudin, Freycinet and Hamelin, the Sanctuary's gorgeous glossy gentlemen, are exemplars of evidence-based training principles and perform amazing feats at liberty, completely free of restraint. Under […]
Come and see the DunsBros perform in the main arena of the Busselton Show. Performances happen every hour on both days of the show between 11am and 2pm. Baudin, Freycinet and Hamelin, the Sanctuary's gorgeous glossy gentlemen, are exemplars of evidence-based training principles and perform amazing feats at liberty, completely free of restraint. Under a […]
Few things are more beautiful than spring blossom and the cherry tree walk means having the pleasure of witnessing the blossoms every spring. Just before spring, gnarled trees, barren and ignored for most of the year, burst into bloom like fountains turned suddenly on. The cherry blossoms hit like a hurricane, cherry plums already broken […]
Racing exposes horses to significant risk of injury, sometimes catastrophic injury, and death through trauma or emergency euthanasia. Our Nup-to-the-Cup luncheon celebrates all that is great about Australia’s most famous racing event without all the cruelty. There’s a delicious 4 course luncheon, a 3 hour beverage package, fashions on the field, door prizes and sweepstakes […]
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