Roxy and Linda's Australia Blog

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Today we left the coast and headed inland. It was a shorter drive, 3 hours, from Derby to Fitzroy Crossing. We stopped at the visitor center to get information about Geikie Gorge National Park and get suggestions for lunch.

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This is the cafe we stopped at. It is owned by a local Aboriginal corporation. The commercial kitchen was designed as a training kitchen for community members.
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The menus was developed to target preventable diseases by adopting nutritional foods and using food as medicine. The lunches were delicious. What a find in a very small place in the middle of nowhere!

The veggies came from this aquaponic garden out behind the cafe.
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Wow! Quite progressive!
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We walked along a trail in Geikie Gorge National Park following the Fitzroy River, one of the longest rivers in Australia. Overlooking the Margaret River joining the Fitzroy.
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We saw lots of wallabies. They were really quick, hard to snap a pic! Look really close at the magnified circle.

Hiking through some of the limestone outcropping.
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The white placards along the support beams indicate the year and high water marks of the Fitzroy River flooding. Several years the high water mark was 4 meters over the top of the gazebo!
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We went on an hour boat cruise in Geikie Gorge. The aboriginal name for the gorge is Danngu. A park range was the skipper and our guide.
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It was amazing where vegetarian grew and how the roots reached down through the limestone towards the river seeking water.
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We did see one crocodile, no picture though. The ranger said not as many are being seen now because it’s mating season, they’re not spending as much time lazing around and sunning.
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The colors on the limestone walls were stunning towards sunset!
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