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Islander and nature boy, journalist, Polestar driver and 41st person to have completed the pure EV lap of Australia. https://youtube.com/@stan-at-kangarooislandtv?si=zysKX-1RLDhmjQmL

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · Nov 16

Just before we left on our pure EV lap of Australia, Polestar sent out a film crew to Kangaroo Island to spend a day with us and this is the result.
I think they did a fantastic job and the island looks fantastic in the footage.
Make sure to watch the video component too.

Beyond the Road: Stan Gorton

Welcome to Beyond the Road, a content series highlighting Polestar owners’ stories from all over the world. In this episode, we met up with journalist and environmentalist Stan Gorton, who lives on th...

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 5m

Yup. This one is a crested pigeon. Lovely native birds that are very relaxed around humans.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 2h

Oh wow. Nature in the raw.
They are such lovely birds and just wander around leisurely.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 3h

Just me, Twig, an elderly couple in a van and the pigeons in Sandstone park this evening. It's definately off peak season due to the heat.
Since pitched the tent to avoid the mosquitos and have the fan going. 31 degrees at 7pm!
Great collection of old bottles and things just sitting here too.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 5h

Seen at the Sandstone General Store:

SHIT CAN STAN
YOU BAKE'M I'LL TAKE'M

SAND STONE NIGHT CART OWNER & DRIVER'S "STAN ALISS & SON.
Est. 1907

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 5h

Burger and guava Jarritos for a late lunch from the Sandstone General Store and Cafe. Nothing is open for dinner in town.
Now I'm sunburnt even though I was lying in the dabbled shade.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks Eileen. It's been a challenge with this heat but worth it. I've almost accomplished my mission. Two nights away now.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 7h

Yup just try and come before October as it's a little warm by this time. Although the guy in the Sandstone cafe said it was just 27 last week.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 9h

Just out of Sandstone we diverted up the Heritage Trail to check out London Bridge, a spot popular with the locals back in the early 1900s when there were 8000 people living in the district.
There's also a cave that operated as the town's brewery for many years. It was amazingly cool back in there.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 10h

G'day from the lovely little town of Sandstone in the hot centre of WA.
After leaving Leonora just after 6am with 100% charge, we stopped half way at Leinster and went grocery shopping.
Passed some wind turbines and lots of road trains, arriving here just after 11am with 41% left in the battery.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. The Trump sign is also suitably orange.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

I lived and went to uni in Boulder. Awesome place!

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

The things you see in Leonora.
Trump Street sign, fittingly planted in astroturf, while tonight's Skimpy at the White House Hotel is Cora.
Meanwhile the roof of the old pizza shop has collapsed, although you only see it through a crack in the wall.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

I felt like Francis Bourgeois, if you know who that is.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

PS thanks for watching the video!!

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Haha. It was a Sunday so much quieter than usual I suspect.
The back roads of Kal seemed busy and there was always some impatient local on my tail. The IGA was also very busy.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Always go the Mega!! Just avoid the Maga 😂

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Laying in the shade on my swag in 35 degrees at Leonora van park, doing my socials.
Car on 15 amp charge, adding 19km of range every hour, reaching 100pc by dawn.
How good is it. Why would you be anywhere else.
The stresses of DC fast charging and getting the most kW for your buck seem miles away.

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Gwalia ghost town is a remnant of the past, the State Hotel, apparently the only hotel built by a government, to make sure that workers had libations.
Just don't try and walk around said hotel as it's surrounded by sink holes.
One small abandoned house reminded me of my own worker's cottage on KI.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of cars, anyone able to identify these old bangers?

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting things in the Gwalia Museum include a massive steam engine to wind up and down the workers and ore.
Love the bronze chair for the winch man.
It had 1000hp, so only 370hp than my new
Zeekr 7X AWD.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Gwalia Mine and the Herbert Hoover house were super interesting.
The future US president was the mine manager here in the late 1800s and now the mine is the world's deepest open cut at 1800 metres.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trains are excellent. And this train driver gave me a little musical tribute with the air horn as I waved from the crossing.
How good is that!

KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

The future is arriving here now in remote Western Australia.
Photo taken from EV, normally powered by massive wind turbine blades like these, when using SA grid power back home.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Time for an eggs Benny roll and tea at the most excellent Laurie's Cafe at Menzies.

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KangarooIslandStan 🦘🇺🇦 @stangorton.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the legendary Broad Arrow Tavern, just north of Kalgoorlie, where everyone signs their name.
Now we head north to the ghost town of Gwalia and then overnight at Leonora.
Also a train...

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