IN A BIG COUNTRY
THE KIMBERLEY
The Kimberley region of Western Australia is all but cemented at the top of most Australians’ travel bucket list. It’s an intoxicating ochre-tinged landscape of ranges, gorges, savannahs and dust that melts into the water along its edges; exploration in these parts is done on a grand scale. Epic overland journeys along the 660-kilometre Gibb River Road take in wondrous sights rendered by nature over millennia, and resound with tales of the Indigenous Australians who have respectfully dwelt here for tens of thousands of years. Navigating its coastline is an equally gargantuan task, if not a more luxurious one thanks to the exclusive collection of cruise companies that ply the waters here. There are roughly 1000 islands in the Buccaneer Archipelago alone, as well as the Horizontal Falls, King George Falls and Cape Leveque (pictured), where the red rocks of the outback meet the clear, cool waters of the Indian Ocean.
INDIGENOUS FESTIVALS
LAURA DANCE FESTIVAL, CAPE YORK This spectacular biennial, three-day festival draws the people of the Cape to the town of Laura to exchange and pass on history through
