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Life in the Land of Aus

by Lisa King Wurzrainer, July 1996

Like many people, I had never heard of the Kimberley. A place called Broome? I thought that was what you swept the kitchen with. Darwin? I thought he was the fellow who came up with the theory of evolution, not a charming little town in Northern Australia. But that was before my first Kimberley expedition.

At first, one may think that Australia is not a remote enough destination for an "expedition." The northwestern corner, known as the Kimberley, however, is one of the most remote, isolated and little known places in the world. Very few people live here—less than 25,000 inhabitants in an area the size of Great Britain. The majority of the residents are aboriginal, whose estimated 40,000-year history on this continent is depicted on countless rock overhangs and isolated cave walls.

Without a doubt, the most ominous and well known resident of this region has four legs, not two and is reminiscent of another age in our history. The saltwater crocodile—a truly prehistoric looking