A journey down WA’s mighty Martuwarra, raging river and sacred ancestor
by Lorena Allam; production: Carly Earl; photographs: from World news | The Guardian on (#5JQ0E)
Traditional owners are standing together to protect the Fitzroy - a beautiful, living water system'. Just watch out for the bird-sized spiders ...
A Nyikina man, Mark Coles Smith, and his fellow travellers began their 400km journey down the mighty Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) on a flood plain covered in giant spiders.
Bird-sized" spiders were clinging to the canopy, jostling for space on branches protruding above flood water that stretched for kilometres in every direction.
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