The Star: October 05, 2017

42 Thursday October 5 2017
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Travel
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With the latest in home care equipment
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Our Services
Most properties require their spouting
to be cleaned at least annually or on a six
month bases as Gutters need to be cleaned
regularly to avoid water build up and
overflow that can cause damage. Cleaning
gutters your self can be dangerous and you
may risk damaging the roof itself.
Allan’s Tyre
and Auto
Servicing all makes & models
The co-owners of Allan’s Tyre and Auto
have more than 20 years’ combined workshop
experience at a Mitsubishi franchise. We have
three mechanics and an apprentice catering
for all types of vehicles. The workshop can
service and repair all makes and models,
including 4WDs and vans.
The well-equipped, MTA-assured
workshop hosts a variety of tools, including
the latest in diagnostic scanners and a factory
scan tool dedicated to Mitsubishi.
If it’s a new set of tyres you’re after, Allan’s
Tyre and Auto also stock a wide range of tyres,
Our staff have the equipment and training
that will ensure that your gutters are cleaned
quickly, without leaving a mess or damaging
your roof or spouting.
Phone: 0800 787 487
Email: info@stopgutterclutter.co.nz
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but can access any preferred brand overnight
for customers. It is also an agent for Battery
Mart.
Available six days a week, Mike and Dirk
offer warrants of fitness on all vehicles,
performing a free battery check as part of
the service. A courtesy car is available, but
bookings are essential.
Allan’s Tyre and Auto, 164 Kendal Ave,
Burnside. Phone 3589399, or visit the
website: allansauto.co.nz
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Ph: 358 9399. 164 Kendal Ave, Burnside
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 8:30am-1pm
SUPER-SIZE: A boab prison tree, a
monumental specimen, dated at over
1000-years-old.
Ever-changing Outback on show
EPIC: Russian Jack’s heroic journey is
immortalised in this elaborate bronze
statue
SLEEPY: A snoozing crocodile on the banks of the
Fitzroy River.
UNUSUAL: The circular pier known as the Derby
•From page 41
Their communities are
wracked by alcohol abuse,
domestic violence and a
severe diabetes epidemic –
“a people lost between two
cultures”, as Delma put it.
But tourism is manifestly
opening up more and more
job opportunities.
We visited a particularly
remote Aboriginal community
school, home to the
Yiyili people, a community
of 250 people scattered
across Louisa Downs who
now own and operate the
cattle station.
Alongside the school,
we admired the local
artworks in Laari Gallery,
a superb place to purchase
an uber-authentic piece
of indigenous art. My
runaway scenic highlight
in the West Kimberley was
encountering the blazing
grandeur of Geike Gorge,
at sundown.
The mighty Fitzroy River
has carved a deep gorge
into the remains of the
ancient limestone barrier
reef, which snakes across
the west Kimberley.
During the wet season,
the river rises over 16m,
permanently staining the
gorge’s vertiginous limestone
walls, white. A frisson
of delight regularly rippled
through our group, when
we spotted freshwater
crocodiles sunning themselves,
on the water’s edge.
The boat tours are expertly
guided by Bunuba
Aboriginal people, who
provided fascinating insights
into cultural richness
of the gorge. But, nothing
can compete with the blazing
theatrical splendour of
the lowering sun striking
those cliff walls, seemingly
setting them on fire – and
the water, through its
reflected glory. It’s a retina-
jetty is built on stilts.
burner.
Just 20min from Geike
Gorge, our overnight stop
was at Fitzroy Crossing,
just one of two towns in
the 1000km stretch of West
Kimberley. In full flood,
the Fitzroy River rises
13m and could fill Sydney
Harbour in just six hours.
At Halls Creek, don’t miss
snapping a shot of the
fabulously carved statue in
the town square.
In 1885, Russian Jack was
working in the Halls Creek
goldmines and famously
pushed his sick friend in
a wheelbarrow 300km
through the Great Sandy
Desert to Wyndham,
which was the nearest town
The Star
with a medical centre back
in those days.
His heroic, epic journey
is immortalised beautifully
in an elaborate bronze
statue.
•Qantas can wing you
from Christchurch to
Broome, with seasonal
direct services from
Brisbane, Melbourne
and Sydney.
•For best available
fares and routes to suit,
head to www.qantas.
com
•For more information
on Western Australia,
head to the official
website. www.
westernaustralia.com
FAST FACTS
•AAT Kings’ Wonders of the Kimberley runs between May and October.
Begin with a spectacular Cable Beach sunset then enter the rugged
Kimberley to cruise down rich waterways teeming with wildlife, experience
remote communities, the Argyle Diamond Mine and gourmet produce
in the Ord Valley. Priced from $5975 per person twin share and including
accommodation, transport, sightseeing, many meals and the services of an
experienced travel director. Aatkings.com, 0800 456 100 or see your travel
agent.