The Kimberley region is one of the most vast and remote wildernesses on the planet and offers some of the best stargazing in the world. Find the Southern Cross and then trace your way through billions of stars.

The Kimberley covers an area of nearly 423,000 kilometres. This immense and ancient land encompasses a diversity of attractions from rugged ranges to gently cascading waterfalls, spectacular desert plains to unexpected rainforests, mighty rivers to dazzling white beaches that stretch much further than the eye can see.

A breathtaking range of flora and fauna abound in the Kimberley on this diverse terrain. Huge turtles and prehistoric crocodiles share this land with Australia’s unique marsupials and prolific birdlife. Floral riches proliferate including wildflowers, palms and majestic boab trees.

These majestic Boab Trees feature in Australian legends, where they are seen to be proud and were punished by being re-planted up-side down, and made to be fat and grotesque. Important to indigenous cultures, the boab tree is a strong spiritual presence, and a source of food and material. The distinctive trunks have girths of up to 20 metres-have also been put to some unusual uses by Europeans, such as the hollowed-out boab once used as a ‘Prison Tree’ near Derby.

The ‘dry’ is the best time to explore stargazing in the Kimberley. Move away from the city lights and see how many constellations you can find, or just sit back and watch the constantly changing patterns of light as the night sky moves around you.

Unique Aboriginal rock art can be found in remote locations in the Kimberley region, so ancient and so unusual that its origins are still disputed.