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Published: November 30th -0001
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Francais
Kalbarri (1 336 habitants) est une ville côtière située à 590 km au nord de Perth en Australie Occidentale. Sa population passe à 10 000 habitants en pleine saison touristique. La ville est orientée vers le tourisme avec des distractions comme l'alimentation des pélicans, le Parc national de Kalbarri, la rivière et les gorges de la Murchinson.
Le parc national de Kalbarri est un parc national en Australie-Occidentale en Australie. D'une superficie de 1830,04 km², situé à 485 km au nord de Perth. Les principales curiosités du parc sont les gorges du fleuve Murchinson longues de près de 80 km. Il existe aussi de très belles falaises sur la côte de l'océan indien près de l'embouchure de la Murchinson et de la ville de Kalbarri.
La région est aussi réputée pour la diversité de ses fleurs sauvages et l'étendue de leurs champs durant les mois d'hivers. Vingt et une sont endémiques au sommet des falaises ou des gorges. L'une des plus connues d'entre elles est la "patte-de-chat de Kalbarri", une petite plante aux fleurs jaunes ou rouges que l'on peut voir pousser sur les terrains fraichement incendiés entre août et septembre. On peut y trouver aussi notamment
différentes orchidées comme une "orchidée araignée" et une "orchidée marteau".
Les activités du parc comprennent les promenades à cheval, les randonnées, les baignades, le canoë et le raft. Il y a aussi des croisières organisées sur le fleuve Murchinson depuis Kalbarri.
La Murchinson (en anglais : The Murchison River) est un fleuve d'Australie et le second plus long cours de l'Australie occidentale.
English
Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West region located 592 km north of Perth, Western Australia. The town is found at the mouth of the Murchison River and has an elevation of 6 metres (20 ft). It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach services N1 and N2.
The local Aboriginal people inhabited the area for thousands of years and have a dreaming story about the Rainbow serpent forming the Murchison River as she came from inland to the coast. The first European people to visit the area were the crew of the trading ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, who put two mutinous crew members ashore near Bluff Point just south of the town. The cliffs near the
river mouth were named after another trading ship, the Zuytdorp, that was wrecked there in 1712. The area became a popular fishing and tourist spot in the 1940s and by 1948 the state government declared a townsite. Lots were soon surveyed and the town was gazetted in 1951. Kalbarri was named after an Aboriginal man from the Murchison tribe and is also the name of an edible seed.
The town is geared towards tourism and fishing, with attractions including the daily pelican feeding, the Kalbarri National Park, Murchison River Gorge and the Murchison River. There are two charter boats to go on to view the Murchison River. The town attracts 200,000 tourists every year with the population of the town swelling to 8,000 during holiday seasons.
The Kalbarri National Park is home to a phenomenon of geography and geology known as the Z Bend, a walking track, and "Nature's Window", a rock formation overlooking hundreds of kilometres of Murchison River. The Rainbow Jungle (The Australian Parrot Breeding Centre), located a few kilometres south of the town centre, features hundreds of exotic species of birds in their native habitat plus a walk-in cage allowing humans to interact with the
birds. Red Bluff and other coastal cliffs and formations are located south of the town.
Recreational fishing is also popular, with good catches being taken from the beaches at Wittecarra Creek and Blue Holes as well as from the numerous cliffs.
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