According to a government website, 1,800 million years ago the Kimberley was a separate land mass that collided with the ancient Pilbara and Yilgarn, forming the core of the future Australian continent. The King Leopold Ranges are the remnants of massive mountains thrown up by the collision and their folded and crumpled rocks tell an important story of the shaping of Australia.
It’s all about the rocks here.
We also saw green turtle, Australian humpback dolphin, Brahminy kites, red groshawks, sea eagles, rock pigeons, etc and the Kimberley rose (not really a rose) which if legend and our guide Malcolm are to be believed a guy gives to his girlfriend when he wants to break up with her because when she sniffs the flowers to smell their perfume billions of little irritating fibers lodge in her sinuses. Lovely.
But it’s all about the rocks.
Mountains of rocks
Ripple rocks that used to be on the sea floor
Curvy rocks
And knobby rocks
A geologist's delight
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