{"id":569435,"date":"2026-03-29T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:39:19","slug":"bullara-station-feels-intense-full-force-of-category-four-tropical-cyclone-narelle-near-exmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569435\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullara Station feels ‘intense’ full force of category four Tropical Cyclone Narelle near Exmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

An outback cattle station in Western Australia’s north has felt the full force of Tropical Cyclone Narelle, with images emerging of the destruction left by the powerful wind and heavy rain.<\/p>\n

TC Narelle smashed the Exmouth Gulf as a category four system on Friday, causing widespread damage to the Gascoyne region, 1,200 kilometres north of Perth.<\/p>\n

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A woman paddle boats through a rural property, with water almost reaching the rooftops of buildings. (Facebook: Bullara Station Stay)<\/p>\n

Rising floodwaters engulfed Bullara Station Stay, a 100,000 hectare property and popular tourist accommodation near Exmouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Owner Edwina Shallcross was emotional when describing the devastation.<\/p>\n

She said the water levels were “unprecedented”.<\/p>\n

“There was a great tidal surge within the gulf,” she said.<\/p>\n

“So that’s come up to the highway, and there is cattle stuck in the tide.”\"A<\/p>\n

Tim Shallcross paddleboards through Bullara Station. (Facebook: Bullara Station Stay)<\/p>\n

In a post to social media, Bullara Station Stay shared videos of fast-flowing floodwaters almost reaching rooftops.<\/p>\n

Ms Shallcross told the ABC that much of the water had receded by Saturday night, but they had been forced to move around on kayaks, tinnies and stand-up paddleboards until then.<\/p>\n

“We never would have thought we’d be on a SUP board or a kayak ever,” she said.<\/p>\n

One video appeared to show an animal seeking refuge in a car, as muddy brown water raged past.<\/p>\n

“There’s definitely a loss of livestock. I just don’t know what numbers,” Ms Shallcross said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve managed to rescue all the horses and the goats.”<\/p>\n

Scratchy, the family’s pet bull and a beloved local figure, was still not accounted for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What appears to be a goat seeks shelter in a car while being pummelled with fast-moving flood water. (Facebook: Bullara Station Stay)<\/p>\n

Ms Shallcross said 15 staff remained on the property, while other workers were evacuated inland to Cheela Plains, 370km to the east.<\/p>\n

“We’re just in one end of the house \u2026 it’s like a big slumber party,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Everyone’s lost something; everyone that’s here has lost cars and all this personal stuff.<\/p>\n

“But they’ve been so amazing.”\"A<\/p>\n

A convoy of cars leaves Bullara Station ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Narelle. (Facebook: Bullara Station Stay)<\/p>\n

Ms Shallcross said the support extended beyond those still on Bullara Station.<\/p>\n

“Our travelling community is just incredible and Exmouth and the pastoralists on other stations have been amazing,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ms Shallcross thanked everyone who had reached out to try and help.<\/p>\n

“There are other stations out there too that have had lots of damage \u2026 we’re fortunate because we have such a public profile.<\/p>\n

“We’re just so grateful.”<\/p>\n

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People on Bullara Station are using improvised methods to get around their now inundated property. (Facebook: Bullara Station Stay)<\/p>\n

Further north, the townsite of Exmouth is reeling from the system,<\/a> which packed wind gusts of up to 250 kilometres an hour at its peak.<\/p>\n

Power and water supplies were cut to the town, though they are in the process of being restored, and the local airport “obliterated”, the shire president said.<\/p>\n

Before, during and after a disaster, find the information you need at ABC Emergency.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An outback cattle station in Western Australia’s north has felt the full force of Tropical Cyclone Narelle, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[219101,219097,219119,219122,219121,49,48,219116,219102,219095,213391,219118,219109,219096,212866,219106,219100,219092,219120,219108,219110,219099,219098,219094,219107,295,219113,33706,219117,219114,219087,219091,219093,18536,219112,37973,66,219115,219103,219089,219105,213387,219104,219090,18537,219088,219111],"class_list":{"0":"post-569435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-australian-cyclone","9":"tag-bom-cyclone","10":"tag-bom-cyclone-tracker","11":"tag-bullara","12":"tag-bullara-station-video","13":"tag-ca","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-carnarvon-cyclone","16":"tag-cyclone-australia","17":"tag-cyclone-bom","18":"tag-cyclone-forecast","19":"tag-cyclone-geraldton","20":"tag-cyclone-in-perth","21":"tag-cyclone-map","22":"tag-cyclone-narelle","23":"tag-cyclone-narelle-map","24":"tag-cyclone-narelle-perth","25":"tag-cyclone-perth","26":"tag-cyclone-power-outage","27":"tag-cyclone-track","28":"tag-cyclone-track-map","29":"tag-cyclone-tracker","30":"tag-cyclone-tracking","31":"tag-cyclone-wa","32":"tag-cyclone-watch","33":"tag-environment","34":"tag-exmouth-weather","35":"tag-flooding","36":"tag-geraldton-cyclone","37":"tag-kalbarri-cyclone","38":"tag-narelle","39":"tag-narelle-cyclone","40":"tag-perth-cyclone","41":"tag-perth-news","42":"tag-perth-weather","43":"tag-power-outage","44":"tag-science","45":"tag-shark-bay-cyclone","46":"tag-tc-narelle","47":"tag-tropical-cyclone","48":"tag-tropical-cyclone-forecast","49":"tag-tropical-cyclone-narelle","50":"tag-tropical-cyclone-narelle-forecast","51":"tag-wa-cyclone","52":"tag-wa-news","53":"tag-wa-weather","54":"tag-weather-perth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}