Narrowing gorges where Aboriginal elders tread

July 2011

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July 2011

Cathedral Gorge, where the trickling waterfall could be an altar. Photo: Melanie Ball
Melanie Ball explores the ancient landscape of north-west Australia’s Purnululu National Park Horror stories rarely live up to their hype and the road into Purnululu National Park, in the Kimberley, is not the monster which park notes and friends’ tales had steeled us for. That’s not to say the road is never a beast or […]
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