What a day we have had, left Kalbarri this morning and planned on staying at Coronation Beach but our plans went out the window. We actually left Australia and visited the Principality of Hutt River. After entering the Principality we had to have a visa stamped giving us entry and it was also stamped to say we were leaving the Principality. We could even have had our passport stamped as entering and leaving the Principality however we decided against that (Apparently the stamping of ones passport as entering and leaving the Principality of Hutt River is recognised world wide). The Principality seceded from Australia on the 21st April 1970 and is now a sovereign State. The person responsible for this is Leonard CASLEY and his wife Shirley, later to become HRH Prince Leonard and HRH Princess Shirley. Princess Shirley passed away last year however Prince Leonard is still active within the Principality at the age of 89 years. We met Prince Leonard today and he showed us around and we even had our photographs taken with him. The history behind him creating the Sovereign State and the Principality was incredibly interesting. Prince Leonard is such an incredibly smart man and the amount of research he must have put in to get the Principality is simply amazing. Different medals exist for persons who are knighted or receive other recognition within the Principality. His 7 children bear the titles of Prince and Princess and we met one of his sons today, Prince Graeme. June got to sit in the Princesss chair and I got to site in the Princes chair. A bit of the history is included in some of the attached photographs, absolutely fascinating. The Principality does not pay income tax however they are still in negotiations with the Federal Government over GST paid on their fuel supplies, alleging they are not liable to GST as the Principality is a Sovereign State and not part of Australia, therefore not subject to Australian taxation laws. By the way, when we got to Coronation Beach there were no camp sites left so we moved to another cheap camp about 21 kilometres out of Geraldton. ALL IN ALL AN INCREDIBLE DAY.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:18:45 +0000
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