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Kalbarri
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Situated at the mouth of the Murchison River, whose sandbar shelters its beach,
KALBARRI
is the best of the west coast's resorts. Without so much as a dreary old jail to shuffle through, this small town is simply a great place to do as much or as little as you like. With the dramatic scenery of the Kalbarri National Park on its doorstep, few resorts can boast such an ideal location, together with good, inexpensive accommodation and a host of activities.
The area's history holds a few wonders of its own. In the 1920s a stockman discovered the remains of a
castaway's camp
on the clifftops north of Kalbarri and excavation revealed the wreck of the Dutch trader,
Zuytdorp
, at the base of the cliff, but no human remains. The fate of the survivors had been a three-hundred-year-old mystery until the diagnosis of the rare Ellis van Creveld Syndrome (endemic in seventeenth-century Holland) among local children of Aboriginal descent suggested that some of the
Zuytdorp
's castaways survived long enough to pass the gene on to the Aborigines of the area. Other useful information
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