Pardoo station

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I have been very lax in keeping up with the blog , the excuse of I’ ve been busy would be a good one but to be honest, it’s not true. We have just been relaxing a lot.

After leaving Dampier we travelled the short hop of four hours to Pardoo station.

In 1913 Pardoo station was a sheep property with around 20 000 head of sheep. The homestead as one of the first built in the region is historically significant. The homestead is built in the typical Pilbara style with no formal entry or hallways and  a central section with several large rooms. The homestead walls are built with concrete and stone and are approximately 45cm’s thick , which is a good thing as the homestead appears to have survived the 2023 cyclone. Sadly they don’t offer tours of the homestead, I would have loved to have seen inside.

located in the heart of the Pilbara, Pardoo is now primarily a working cattle station breeding pure and crossbreed Wagyu beef with the mission of putting western Australia on the map as a producer of the best quality Wagyu beef.  However they also provide facilities for camping and caravans and accomodation and meals for the local miners. 

With three tidal creeks and 16 plus kilometres of coastline the station is a fisherman’s paradise. Neither Gadget or i are experienced fisherpeople, so we did’nt put our rods in here, but we still really enjoyed our stay at the station. 

The extremely friendly and helpful staff pointed out a few places to enjoy sunset , so the first night we headed down to the red point beach.  

This beach was literally moving with hermit crabs following the tide. You can literally hear them, we had to be really careful where we walked to ensure we didn’t crush one 


I really enjoyed trying to get as close to the crabs as possible and became so engrossed trying to get good photos that I almost missed the sunset.

They were so cute 

The sunset itself was pretty lovely,  and this is one of my favourite photos.

Sadly for the station, it took a direct hit from cyclone Isla in April 2023. Creating Millions of dollars worth  of damage. The storage sheds and helicopter hanger were crushed like aluminium cans , however they also lost 19 of their 20 centre pivot irrigators (worth almost $300 000). This unfortunately resulted in the station needing to significantly reduced their cattle herd due to reduced capacity to provide feed. However 12 plus months  on it was great to see lots of calves and the station slowly starting to rebuild their herd.

Whilst we were there we took the opportunity to explore the property, Reggie got to do quite a bit of dirt and sand road driving.

The above picture was taken down at the beach flats , the ocean here literally goes out about 2 to 3 kms every tide, it was just amazing, as we were walking around we were finding shells, and small jelly fish.


It was a really interesting place to explore and we had a wonderful time here.

Until the next blog

Save travels

The Touring Knights





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