The Dumbleyung Bluebird Festival is one of Dumbleyung’s longest-running community celebrations, bringing locals and visitors together for a day of family entertainment [...]

Keith has strong memories of being at Lake Dumbleyung and being the ‘starter’ for the Bluebird. Friends with Brian Bracknell and living in Dumbleyung in 1964 working as a carrier, he was keen […]

Gary Smith who was also at Lake Dumbleyung when Donald Campbell was there in 1964, lives close by at Katanning. The district has had some very heavy rains [...]

My Husband flew his light aircraft down to Dumbleyung Lake a few days before the record run and he said there were crowds of people and press there, and nothing happened […]

Dumbleyung and West Australian trucking pioneer Brian Bracknell is indicative of the spirit and commitment truck drivers give to improve the standards of their industry and service to their customers […]

On Wednesday 5 November 2014 Gina Campbell and Mr Whoppit visited Dumbleyung Primary School and Kukerin Primary School [...]

The iconic Dumbleyung Bluebird entry sign is on the move! 🚜 To celebrate and better connect with our rich local history, the Shire of Dumbleyung is relocating the Bluebird sign from its current home […]

Leo Villa was the long-serving engineer/mechanic of both Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell. He received an OBE in June 1976 for services to land and water speed records [...]

PEOPLE came from far and wide to meet atop Pussycat Hill on the northern side of Lake Dumbleyung on New Year’s Eve 2014 to witness the ‘active’ memorial tributing Donald Campbell’s success of achieving the World Water Speed Record in 1964.

A community fundraising drive in the Shire of Dumbleyung has ensured the construction of a replica of the hydroplane used to break the world water speed record on Lake Dumbleyung […]

Mick Hill, an illustrator from the the UK has done a wonderful print to celebrate Donald Campbell’s “Double”
He has kindly allowed the Dumbleyung Bluebird committee to make use of his print [...]

A long-standing project by the Dumbleyung Townscape Community group is an eye-catching attraction at the western entrance to the town of Dumbleyung. Pat Holmes developed the design and Nick Green of Dumbleyung Engineering, has constructed it […]

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF DONALD CAMPBELL’S RECORD 1964 – 2024 Back in 2017 the Donald Campbell statue was unveiled with the final touches of the information panels installed that following March […]

The Post Office is the preferred location to house the proposed Community Resource Centre and Bluebird Discovery Centre. This will pay a tribute to an important historical building within the community and once again give this central building purpose [...]

In 2014, the Dumbleyung community came together for a special occasion to celebrate the unveiling of the Bluebird K7 Replica, commemorating 50 years since Donald Campbell's historic world water speed record on Lake Dumbleyung in 1964 [...]

Part of my career in Local Government was spent as CEO of the Dumbleyung Shire Council from 1963 to 1966 and during this period, very much in the news in 1964 was the fact that in July […]

Dumbleyung welcomed the New Year in style as the community came together on 31 December 2014 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Donald Campbell's [...]