Interesting local exhibits run by volunteer staff. The building belies the museum inside. Pick up a Heritage Trail booklet and ask about the portrait gallery in town.
Augusta Historical Museum
West Coast Australia
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Margaret River Distilling Company
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Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park
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The most spectacular of the region's caves, Jewel Cave has an impressive 5.9m straw stalactite, so far the longest seen in a tourist cave. Fossil remains…
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Local arts and crafts, 22km south of Margaret River, with a wide selection of jarrah furniture.
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Mammoth Cave boasts a fossilised jawbone of Zygomaturus trilobus, a giant wombat-like creature, as well as other fossil remains and the impressive Mammoth…
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The formal gardens and Cape Dutch–style buildings delight at Voyager Estate. Tours of the estate include the kitchen garden that Rick Stein also loved…