Walcott Inlet

Submitted: Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 at 15:24
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For those planning a visit read on.

This book reading stuff can certainly be contagious! Following on from my reading the “River of Home” it was recommended I read “Last Horse Standing” and what a great recommendation it was I might add. I have already confessed to being a non reader so it was somewhat surprising when I couldn’t put this book down!

Having had aspirations of visiting Walcott Inlet in 2005 but to be outvoted when we were near the turn off I have developed a little thirst for information about the area. There remains a strong desire to see the place notwithstanding the negative feedback I received at the time. After reading these two books I feel a much stronger urge then ever to have a look.

What interested me most is that the events in this book are set in 1971 when I was 16 years of age myself and the Kimberley seemed young with plenty of life threatening adventure. It is hard to imagine that this story was unfolding at the same time when I was going to school and having an easy life at home. You just have to admire the people that shaped this country.

Clearly it is a harsh country with little to offer by way of luxury – no camping under some palms swaying in the breeze. It would be easy to dismiss this place as some god forsaken place BUT it has some magnificent history and rarely do you have the opportunity to look at something like this that just does not have mainstream appeal.

In some way it would have been a shame to see the place before reading the books and my future visit will certainly have me looking at the place differently. I would thoroughly recommend both books if planning a visit to Walcott Inlet.

Kind regards
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