6 Jun 10 – Hamelin Station

By Craig: Hamelin Station is recognition of what an alternative business idea for remote stations can look like, a delightful place to rest even if it was only one night. A lot of thought and effort was put in to this project, modern facilities with an outward appearance of yesteryear.
Would I recommend it to others, yes and hopefully we will return again possibly on our next tour.
While we were in the area we visited Hamelin Pool and the Stromatolytes. Apparently these small living rocks are our long lost relatives, we were delighted to find this out and started picking out possible ancestors.






By Lou: At 100km this overnight stop was probably the shortest distance between camps we’ve ever travelled but we had been so impressed by an earlier inspection that we wanted to give it a go. The station was lovely and peaceful and a lovely atmosphere created in the renovated shearer’s shed and communal kitchen.

Hamelin appears to comprise the old Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station (closed due to lack of staff), tearooms, a caravan park and the stomatolite pools. Peculiarly, the tearooms sold quite an eclectic array of dresses and swimwear which seemed more suited to a high street somewhere.

The 1km walk to the Pools was through a quarry which in days goneby provided compacted shell blocks for building homesteads and other buildings. The stromatolites were curious looking things. Slow growing apparently, and you can still see the lines made by the carts hauled out by camels to awaiting ships







Sprung bad, Tag Dag.