Shark Bay Materials:Fine Art Print Framed - White Timber As the water travels hundreds

As the water travels hundreds of kilometres

unable to discharge their load into the sea

and still largely untouched

its surface cracked and glazed by the sun

It was along this river that the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills made their final camp in 1861

Shark Bay Materials:Fine Art Print Framed - White Timber As the water travels hundredsShark Bay, Western Australia 7110 Limited Edition 10 At the most westerly point of the Australian continent, Shark Bay, with its islands and the land surrounding it, has three exceptional natural features: its vast sea grass beds, which are the largest (4,800 km2) and richest in the world; its dugong (sea cow) population; and its stromatolites, colonies of algae which form hard, dome shaped deposits and are among the oldest forms of life on earth.