Western Australian Travel – Page 2 – Chris Parry Writes For Us

6PR with Burgo! Sports Tourism is all about saying, ‘I was there!’

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025Posted in 6pr, 6PR Perth, quirky travel, sports tourism, sports tours, travel, travel bucket lists, travel fun, travel news, Western Australian TravelTagged #perth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustralia, travel, WA travelLeave a comment

On 6PR Weekend Wrap Up, I found myself sharing the airwaves with John Burgess, an icon of Australian television and radio. A tv game show host legend and a radio dj when dj’s were gods of the airwaves. It was very cool to laugh our way through stories about sports tourism.

From callers with tales about naked West Indian cricketers to iconic events and venues around the world and close to home, with a lot of laughter we covered more ground than the MCG.

Enjoy listening to the first half of the show in the file below. Just like a Grand Prix driver, we go off track from time to time but we got to the finish line in style!

6PR – Where are the best bakeries in Western Australia?

March 1, 2025March 1, 2025Posted in 6pr, 6PR Perth, roadtrips, rottnest island, travel fun, Western Australian TravelTagged #perth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustralia, WA travelLeave a comment

It was lots of fun to learn where our best bakeries are. Heats in Cockburn was a surprise that many callers say have the best donuts. Rottnest Bakery wasn’t a surprise nomination and it’s a great example of what we like about our favourite bakeries when we travel. They’re part of that rite of passage moment that defines your arrival. You haven’t really arrived on Rottnest until you’ve been to the bakery.

Williams Woolshed has a sausage roll that will get you through the day and Mount Barker with its range of gourmet pies was a popular choice.

A good bakery can be a reason to travel or it might just be the traditional break on your way to somewhere down the road.

The cream bun at Rottnest Bakery will give you the sugar rush you need to cycle around the island

Williams Woolshed sausage rolls have become a reason to stop in Williams for my family (pic Williams Woolshed)

Many bakeries are on the main streets of country towns. The Toodyay Bakery has a balcony veranda overlooking the Main Street, perfect for watching the world go by as you wait for your cottage pie to cool down.

6PR Weekend Wrap: Animal experiences on our travels

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025Posted in 6pr, 6PR Perth, adventure tourism, barna mia, Bunbury dolphins, Chris Parry travel, dryandra travel, dryandra woodland village, eco tourism, family travel, madikwe, madikwereserve, perth, Rockingham, Rockingham tourism, sanctuary makanyane safari lodge, Western Australian Travel, wildlife tourismTagged #perth, #wanderoutyonder, family travel, WA travelLeave a comment

On 6PR with Rusty, we swam with dolphins, watched some bilbies and even made time to debate whether a cream bun should have mock cream or real cream.

Enjoy listening to the show on the bar below. Let me know if it inspires you to head down to Dryandra or Rockingham or anywhere that’s got an animal experience you can be a part of.

Have a Go News: Cunderdin on the ground and in the air

February 18, 2025June 2, 2025Posted in adventure tourism, Chris Parry travel, roadtrips, travel, travel bucket lists, Western Australian TravelTagged #wanderoutyonder, cunderdin, Gliding, WA travelLeave a comment

Astronaut Michael Collin’s once wrote that he wondered what John McGee, author of every aviators favourite poem, High Flight, would have written if he’d been able to go into space. I wonder if my own words, far less grander than High Flight, would improve with more height. I don’t think so. Gliding above the flat, wide landscape below me was a remarkable experience that I’m happy to share with you in the published story below.

https://www.haveagonews.com.au/travel/slipping-the-surly-bonds-of-earth-for-80-years/?amp

ABC Statewide across Western Australia heads down our favourite roads

February 17, 2025February 26, 2025Posted in #abc, ABC, abcperth, roadtrips, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #perth, #roadtrips, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustralia, travel, WA travelLeave a comment

On ABC Statewide we took a drive down our favourite roads. From Broome to Cape Leveque in the far north, to the roads of the Midwest during wildflower season, the big loop from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Esperance, Albany and back to Perth and how about the Zig Zag Scenic Drive up on Gooseberry Hill?

Personally, I still think an unsealed road in the Wheatbelt is hard to beat but the Broome to Cape Leveque road (back in the day) was a great experience.

Broome to Cape Leveque – couldn’t be redder, couldn’t be bluer, couldn’t be happier.

ABC Weekend Explorer … how murals are changing the world around us

February 25, 2023Posted in #abc, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, perth, Perth tourism, quirky travel, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #perth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustraliaLeave a comment

On ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we found mural trails in Kuching and Milan and in ever increasing numbers here in Perth and our regional communities. Where’s your favourite mural? Where’s your worst?

Enjoy listening to our discussion below and then find a way to find a mural next weekend, and then walk to another one, and another one. You get the idea.

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This mural in Kuching is one of my favourites and recently found its way onto a list of the Top 100 Murals of the World.

ABC Weekend Explorer … time to get some red dust on your boots

February 25, 2023Posted in #abc, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, Kalgoorlie, travel, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustraliaLeave a comment

For ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we thought we’d head over the escarpment, through the Wheatbelt and head up the wide open road to Kalgoorlie.

We had callers with tales of brothels and gold in the gutters and the culture of a community that sometimes gets mistaken for being only about the colour of your high viz shirt.

Enjoy listening to our show in the file below and learn about rotundas with Afghan architecture, big holes in the ground, wide streets and where to play Two-Up!

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Astrotourism … a new frontier

February 18, 2023Posted in #abc, abcperth, perth, Perth tourism, quirky travel, Uncategorized, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #perth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustraliaLeave a comment

On the Weekend Explorer for ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast, I recently explored space and rediscovered my memories of Skylab and discovered observatories, big dishes, astrotourism towns, astronauts in Carnarvon, emus in the sky and starlapse wonder by local photographer, Dan Paris.

Listen to the link below to learn more about Astrotourism and some really good music but really bad space jokes:

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And for a mesmerising starlapse above Mount Augustus and other great Western Australian sites, go to @danparisphotography

For Hidden Treasures on ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast: Western Australian books and their locations … and a Special Guest

December 12, 2022Posted in #abc, abcadelaide, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, perth, Perth tourism, quirky travel, travel, travel fun, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #perth, #wanderoutyonder, #westernaustralia, WA travel1 Comment

One of our best ever Hidden Treasures stories of all time! With special guest star, global writing superstar Molly Schmidt, we explored local books and the use of local locations and how they inspire our travels.

Listen to our chat below and learn not just what our favourite Western Australian books are but how important those local locations can be:

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As Published in Have A Go News: Discovering the Joy of Main Streets

October 20, 2022Posted in #abc, ABC, abcadelaide, abcperth, abcperthsaturdaybreakfast, Chris Parry travel, perth, Perth tourism, roadtrips, Western Australian TravelTagged #abcperth, #perth, #Perthnow, #westernaustralia, WA travelLeave a comment

***The Main Street of York is full of history, cafes, books and lollies***

Growing up in a country town, the main street was a great place to walk down on a Saturday morning to see who else was out and about.

Main Streets of Western Australia continue to define the life of their communities. It might just be to go to the butcher or grocer, pick up the newspaper (maybe a copy of Have A Go News!) or some rope from the trading post. Or it might be that you’re on a road trip and want to buy the best sausage roll in town or look through a local museum.

Main streets are great reasons to get out and explore regional communities at any time of year.

Below is a story I recently had published about some of the best main streets in WA, and the best reasons for a walk down them:

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