Aboriginal Cultural and Rock Art Journey

KIMBERLEY SPECIALISTS
Caring for the Kimberley

Winner of the
2003 Bird Cameron
Regional Achievers
Award

Aboriginal Cultural and Rock Art Journey:
Kachana Station/Faraway Bay Experience.

Key Features:

Aboriginal Culture. Rock Art. Aboriginal Guide. Bradshaw Paintings. Aboriginal medicinal and bush food plants. Bushwalking. Isolation and Nature.
"The guiding goes way beyond the more standard bush touring and takes you, as a visitor, into the environmental challenges that face the Kimberley…" Charles and Clare Carlow. Wilderness Australia.

This journey begins on the remote outback Kachana Pastoral Station where you will fly out from Kununurra and join archaeologist Lee Scott-Virtue at the Cleanskin pioneer eco solar powered camp. You will spend your days exploring magnificent gorges and valley systems learning about native bush foods and medicinal plants.

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These walks will also take you on an Aboriginal and educational cultural walk through time as you look at open living and camp sites as timeless as the landscape you are travelling on. Learn about the active land-care and resource management programmes in place as Kachana Pastoral Company, scientists, researchers and Aboriginal individuals work towards preserving these 'Islands of Biodiversity and Cultural heritage'.

At Faraway bay you will spend your days boating and walking to ancient Aboriginal sites looking at the mysterious and magnificent Bradshaw paintings and other forms of Aboriginal rock art. Faraway Bay is rich in Aboriginal culture and provides a 6000-year coastal inland insight as well as an earlier insight into Pleistocene inland Aboriginal culture.

"During our bushwalks we learnt a lot about the flora and fauna of the area and also the ancient Aboriginals who used to inhabit the area. …"Katie Bush (Travel agent) Glenn Bush (Surveyor).