The Kimberley, Western Australia

Posted on October 7, 2021

By Marion Halliday –Bizarrely shaped trees lift their twisted fingers against the perfect, vivid blue dome of the sky. Semi-submerged crocodiles snooze in the sun on sandbanks and gravel bars beneath towering cliffs.

Unusual beehive-shaped formations bedded in ancient Precambrian rock dot the landscape, and fragments of a Devonian reef, once the ocean floor, rise from plains and riverbanks.

The waters of a massive lake stretch almost to infinity, scattered with islands formed by the peaks of a drowned mountain range. In the subterranean depths of a sunken waterhole, goannas laze on the rocks amidst a hidden fragment of tropical forest.

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GlobeRovers Magazine December 2021