Apearly white smile comes to mind when reminiscing about a recent trip to Western Australia’s Dampier Peninsula. Not mine, of course. That natural high beam belonged to Jawi tour guide Rosanna Angus. She’s one of the Dampier Peninsula’s impassioned tour guides offering authentic indigenous experiences in a region that sticks out like the country’s left thumb 220km north-east of Broome.
Previously it had been a long, bumpy ride along an unsealed Broome-Cape Leveque Road to access the peninsula’s bounty of natural and cultural wonders. This tiny slither of the Kimberley is home to colourful landscapes such as flaming red coastal cliffs, indigo waters, sweeping white shores and salt plains, and lime mangrove forests, to name a few highlights.
Thankfully these days, it’s all smooth sailing along the now sealed highway to reach the peninsula’s brightly hued shores. There’s no excuse to have FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) with extraordinary encounters such as hunting mud crabs with spears, navigating mangrove mazes, and overcoming tidal movements to explore far-flung islands. These outback adventures are far removed from
