Travellin’ the Gibb.

They’re bungin’ some tar on the

Gibb River Road,

so hooray for the Nomads and their heavy load.

**

I travelled it once,

a fair time in the past

through Kimberly Country

with horizons so vast.

Rememberin’ Fitzroy and dry bed Halls Creek

lookin’ around

needs more than a week.

Fitzroy Crossing - as ol’ timers will tell,

perhaps it was spawned from spit out of hell.

Bound by the Oscar and Napier Ranges

the ensuing  years have rung many changes,

   but still you will see, stingray, swordfish and shark –

from back in time when daytime was dark.

Tunnel Creek.

                                                                                                             This creek is a Tunnel

                                                                                                                                  of dark

                                                                                                                     hidden treasure,

                                                                                                           perhaps a last remnant,

                                                                                                                   a lost barrier reef.

                                                                                                             Make your way slowly

                                                                                                   through stoney stilled waters ,

                                                                                                             while colours cascade

                                                                                                                 to belie your belief.

                                                                                                     Some three hundred million

                                                                                                                                         of

                                                                                                                    annual rotations,

                                                                                                                          was the time

                                                                                                             when these structures

                                                                                                                     were forced into

                                                                                                                                    relief.

                                                                                                                                         **

                                                                                         Standing above an alluvial floodplain

                                                             are escarpments that rang with the voice of the law - when

                               Jandamarra

                                                                                        shot his way into this country’s history.

                                                                                                                                     Now

                                                                                                                    he is recorded in

                                                                                                                             Kimberley

                                                                                                                                folklore.

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8/7/11.