Don't you love the Land Rovers? They are parked in front of King's Ck Station . There were about 15 of them and they had travelled along the Canning Stock Route.
The owner of King's Ck Station, Ian Conway is an amazing bloke. We heard his story in a presentation on the last night we were there. He calls himself a"white blackfella". Born of an indigenous mother and a part aboriginal father, who was a stockman working for Sir Sidney Kidman, he hardly saw his father and his mother died when he was quite young. He was raised mainly by his aboriginal grandmother. In short he had a pretty tough life but was keen to make things better for the local aboriginal people. He opened up the station in the early 80s and took his family out to nothing.....They went back to Alice and returned when he had built a shelter to live in! It was a pretty unforgiving environment but his wife survived (don't think I would!) and he eventually built up the station where he traps camels and sells them to the Morrocans among others!
He set up a trust where local indigenous kids are selected and sent to boarding school in Adelaide - some of you may have seen him on Australian Story. We were impressed, I really enjoyed hearing his story.
We continued to explore Kings Canyon and enjoyed more sumptuous cooking - don't think I'll lose any weight on this trip - thank goodness for walking and bike riding!
Great to read your stories and rekindle my memories of our trip there last year. You are getting more cycling than me!
ReplyDeleteRain on CApe York yesterday afternoon so I may have dust free run down to Weipa during the next 2 days. Keep on enjoying your trip. Take care.
Duncan