"'ave yer seen me friend? she's really, really tall, she's got bits o' ceilin' stuck in 'er 'air"; this bit of comedy genius was what I thought of when I heard the name 'Kimberley'. In the last few weeks however, we have witnessed ' The Kimberley' in all her glory. Firstly, some factoids: - 423,517 square kilometres or, to put it another way, 3 times the size of England or slightly smaller than California - first peopled about 40,000 years ago but the neighbourhood went downhill about 250 years ago when some Europeans arrived - there are 4 LGAs (Local Government Area - a name most people from NSW are becoming too aware of). Broome, Derby (West Kimberley), Halls Creek and Wyndham (East Kimberley) - population (in the 2016 Census) 34,794 but we are guessing this number almost doubled in the height of this years travelling season - 40% of the population are indigenous with 50-60 different aboriginal languages spoken - economy is
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