The Francois Peron National Park is gruesome to access but the enthusiast will be handsome rewarded with some of the most magnificent views of the Sun and Sea and Red Hills meeting here. Many locations exist for a quiet enjoyment of nature but as with all things Australia, one needs to be constantly aware that one is travelling in remote lands.
The crescendo was reached, in my case, when I was taught that the explorer, Mungo Park discovered river Niger. How could this be, I had asked myself, that a very long and wide river as the Niger was hidden from the plain sight of the people that for centuries lived on its bank and it has to take an European to come over to Africa to discover it?