We travelled the thirteen hundred kilometres from Geraldton to Broome over three weeks. Simon’s camera captured stratified red sandstone walls, spiky rock formations, and white sand beaches at mouth of the Murchison River. We walked several of the trails in the National Park, the flies so thick, we resorted to hats with attached nets. From a local guide, we learned the Dreamtime story of the ancestral spirit whose tracks had formed the great river. Simon had recorded some of the river’s moods from our campsite at Coolalya, and now from a high lookout, we saw the river mingle with the ocean.
Walking with a wildflower guide in the National Park, we found exquisite examples of the vulnerable Kalbarri Spider Orchid. Growing up to twenty centimetres, it has a base of four long, tapered petals
