Tom Price - Karajini....Places to go????

Personally I would avoid Witternoom given its history

Wittenoom is well worth a visit . Local gem shop and museum has some very interesting comments to make on asbestos . The Monastry has good cheap accommodation or could advise on camping , their phone o8 91897060 . Locals are some of the friendliest people you will ever meet .

Well my wife has some interesting comments as well having looked after her mother as she died from mesothelioma.
If you want to know more there is a good book called Blue Murder which explains quite clearly the history of asbestos right back to the fact that the romans knew it was evil stuff through to the history of wittenoom.
It has cheap accomadation because 30 years after you visit you may end up dead.

Hello 1arm

My condolences on the passing of your wife's mother . Dying from mesothelioma is one of the worst deaths imaginable and understandably has a traumatic and lasting effect on all involved . But you are wrong in your assertion that you risk mesothelioma by visiting Wittenoom and you are wrong to assert that is the reason for the accommodation being cheap .

Although it is WA government [ or public service ] policy to close Wittenoom down , the government's own scientific adviser who investigated the Wittenoom situation found no hazard in the continued occupation of the town .

The accommodation at Wittenoom is cheap because the real estate in Wittenoom , including tha monastry , is cheap and the owner doesn't have high overheads to pass on .

I sympathise with your aversion to anything connected to asbestos and can understand your view , but I can also understand the view of the residents of Wittenoom who wish to live in a very beautiful part of the world and who seem to have scientific advice that it is safe to do so .