Murchison House Station

Murchison House Station is a working cattle station.
Ten minutes East of Kalbarri township on the Ajana Road.
Stay awhile or take a tour of our family run outback property.

Telephone:    08 9937 1998
Facsimile:   08 9937 1699
Email:    murchisonhouse@hotmail.com
OR
Call UHF Channel 16

We are pleased to offer half day tours of historic Murchison House Station, one of the oldest and largest pastoral stations in W.A. Settled in 1848 by Charles Von Bibra to supply meat and wheat to the burgeoning district and remount horses for the Indian army.
The station has over 60kms of rugged Indian Ocean shoreline and over 30kms of Murchison River floodplains. Because of the plentiful supply of water, with permanent springs and soaks and several year round creeks, wildlife is abundant.
Large flocks of birds abound, kangaroos and emus are plentiful and feral goats are everywhere.
The homestead is sited on the tranquil banks of the Murchison River, surrounded by hundreds of large river gum trees, just 13kms from Kalbarri town centre.

The station is concentrating on a pure bred Brahman Herd but is also actively trapping and mustering feral goats which are shipped live from Australia or are processed and then exported as frozen meat.
The previous owner of Murchison House Station, Prince Mukramm Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hydrabad, was educated at Sandhurst Military Academy in the U.K. and later started collecting military equipment and large earth moving machinery.
A varied collection is now scattered around the property. The largest unit is an Allis Chalmers Fiat HD41B Bulldozer ( reputed to weigh 86 tonnes).

The station cemetery is Kalbarri's oldest with several graves dating back to the 1850's. The graves include the pilot and mechanic of the first commercial airmail flight in Australia. A contract was awarded by Australia Post to a company formed by Sir Norman Brearley to fly mail from Geraldton to Derby.
On the inaugural flight, 3 planes took off from Langley Park, Perth. One plane crashed near the homestead. The Commonwealth Aviation Historical Society has a memorial plaque and headstone placed on the graves.
The original homestead, known as Von Bibra Cottage is still standing and contains some memorabilia of times gone by.