Qualla: Quobba https://qualla.com/quobba en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Quobba https://qualla.com/quobba Quobba: Introduction https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Gruyere, CC BY-SA 3.0. A weathered wooden sign stands near the cliff edge, and its message is three words long: KING WAVES KILL. It is not decoration. Along this stretch of the Gascoyne coast, the Indian Ocean throws sudden surges over the rocks without warning, and the warning exists because people have been swept away and drowned here. Yet visitors keep coming, because Quobba is one of the most extraordinary coastlines in Western Australia, where the sea performs and threatens in the same breath.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/qe8t-quobba-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Quobba: Where the Ocean Breathes https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Travel & Shit from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. Just south of Point Quobba, the swell finds its way into sea caves beneath a low rock platform and has nowhere to go but up. The result is the Quobba blowholes, dozens of vents in a single shelf of stone that fire jets of seawater as high as twenty metres into the air. They perfo...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/qe8t-quobba-where-the-ocean-breathes.mp3 0:06 2 full Quobba: The Most Westerly Run https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Richahel at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Quobba Station spreads along the coast roughly sixty kilometres north of Carnarvon, its boundary tracing the shoreline for about 180 kilometres. It is the most westerly station in Australia, a run of coastal rangeland stitched together from saltbush, acacia and buffalo grass. The...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/qe8t-quobba-the-most-westerly-run.mp3 0:06 3 full Quobba: When the War Washed Ashore https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Emma Blackwell, CC BY-SA 4.0. In November 1941, the deadliest moment in Australian naval history reached this remote shore. The light cruiser HMAS Sydney, a Leander-class vessel launched in 1934 and fresh from action in the Mediterranean, met the disguised German raider Kormoran off the coast on 19 November. ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/qe8t-quobba-when-the-war-washed-ashore.mp3 0:06 4 full Quobba: Surf, Sharks and Self-Reliance https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Travel & Shit from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the 1970s, fishing and surfing have drawn a steady trickle of travellers willing to make the drive. Just up the coast, Red Bluff offers a famous left-hand break peeling over reef, a wave spoken of with reverence by surfers and respect by everyone else. In 2012 a surfer was ...

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