Fitzroy Crossing

So this is 9 o'clock yesterday through to 9am today.

And Bedford Downs had 27 mils, Doongan 10, Fitzroy Crossing 30 mils, Fossil Downs 19, Gibb River 63, Halls Creek 31, Kununurra at the airport 39 mils, Lansdowne 44, Leopold Downs 33.

Margaret River Airstrip, 28.

That's the Margaret River in the Kimberley, not the one in the southwest.

So, yeah, we've had some pretty hot temperatures across the north overnight.

Places like Halls Creek, Marble Bar and Karragini as well as Fitzroy Crossing only got down to about 28 degrees, and it's a very warm start to the day today.

We've reached as hot as 46 degrees at Mandora, which is along the coast in the eastern part of the Pilbara, and 44 currently at Fitzroy Crossing.

So yeah, very hot conditions across the north of the state.

And yeah, that looks like it's going to continue, especially over northern and eastern parts of the Pilbara and then southern areas of the Camberley.

Yeah, so really hot.

That area, Fitzroy Crossing to Marble Bar, Telfer, those sorts of areas, particularly inland parts, temperatures are Up around 44, 45 maximums today and moving, looking the next two or three days ahead.

Basically the rest of this working week, it's going to be hot through that area.

Also extends out to the coastal parts of the Pilbara as well.

bash of heat through particularly through the Pilbara and mainly because there's not a lot of weather around so you know the heat's building in that area without a flush out from the south.

As far as weather goes though today is probably the quietest day in the north of the state.

I've got showers and thunderstorms north of about Fitzroy Crossing today and tomorrow and then after that they start extending southward so we'll see them right throughout the Kimberley on Thursday and And also a low developing sort of over land through the Gascoyne on Wednesday and Thursday will start generating some thunderstorm activity as well.

So that'll extend sort of through most of the Gascoyne areas east of, well, sort of north and east of Carnarvon, south of the Karratha area on Thursday.

Many families on Louisa Downs Station are sixth generation descendants.

Penny Muddling and Maisie Street are the daughters of Biddy's older sister, who went to live at Fitzroy Crossing.

Penny and Maisie were raised by Biddy and William Cox.

They grow them up.

They had spoked wheels, not four-wheel drive like today.

Before this crossing was built, before there were motor cars, people went on a very old road the long way around.

It took a long time to travel, four days to go from Fitzroy Crossing to get supplies.

Freddy Cox had a wagon and a lot of donkeys.

Like we have a lot of different arts types things, but there's, you know, a regular bill in a sense of Merigaku performances and your storytelling, but also giving that ownership back to community around their stories as well.

I think like, How do you find the community responds? Like, you know, one minute you could be in Sydney or France and the next minute you're in, I don't know, Fitzroy Crossing or somewhere,

right? Yeah, yeah, literally.

I think Marrakech was our first year of being born into existence, included, you know, touring remote communities in Arnhem Land and then Europe.

We had to really work through those challenges from the very first day and taking on that responsibility to dream it up for each of the places we engage with because you don't want to pass in and pass out.

You want to make meaningful relationships and have an impact with what it is that you're trying to do.

So when we... are in Fitzroy Crossing, we're scouting all the time for, okay, who's the deadly fella here or the deadly woman here that might want to come on this journey.

And, you know, they might not even know that they have this spirit to do this or they might have trained like many, gone down to WAPA, did the training like I did.

and then making that step into our NGA programs as well.

So we've had, as an example, a group that came from Wonka Jonka outside of Fitzroy Crossing.

A group of boys came down and participated in our 12s carnival, sorry, our 13s carnival earlier in the year.

And to such a degree, one of them actually got best on their player of the carnival.

So I knew what the areas looked like by road.

And I'm meditating, going to sleep in my bed at home in August 2004, believing I was in a tent on the side of the road, say between Fitzroy Crossing and Horse Creek.

Oh, yeah, I know that area.

That's where Christo is.