Trenton High School senior Ava Cheff is beginning a lifelong dream as she directs her first play with Wyandotte’s P.S. Center Stage Players community theater group.
Catherine Marshall05:00, May 31 2021
Great, milky tides surge into Yawuru Nagulagun Roebuck Bay Marine Park, drowning meadows of seagrass, submerging sandbanks and slabs of oxblood sandstone, and washing away cars carelessly parked on intertidal mudflats. The fast-rising currents swallow the hapless vehicles and regurgitate their rusted carapaces up and down the Dampier Peninsula. This region is subject to one of the world s largest tidal fluctuations – a phenomenon which carries with it a rich brew of nutrients and the superfluity of marine life subsisting on them. Among the most unusual of these creatures is the Australian snubfin dolphin, a species largely unknown – even among those who live here.
Great, milky tides surge into Yawuru Nagulagun Roebuck Bay Marine Park, drowning meadows of seagrass, submerging sandbanks and slabs of oxblood sandstone, and washing away cars carelessly parked on intertidal mudflats. The fast-rising currents swallow the hapless vehicles and regurgitate their rusted carapaces up and down the Dampier Peninsula.
This region is subject to one of the world s largest tidal fluctuations – a phenomenon which carries with it a rich brew of nutrients and the superfluity of marine life subsisting on them. Among the most unusual of these creatures is the Australian snubfin dolphin, a species largely unknown – even among those who live here.
Australians are holidaying at home, for now
The road to Broome is desolate, the landscape surrounding it almost bereft of visible life. The pindan soil so intensely pigmented it will stain your clothes forevermore is cloaked in withering scrub and waves of spear grass bent double by the last of the wet season rains. But the emptiness is dispelled as I pull into Broome, a frontier city located on Western Australia’s Kimberley coast. The city centre, currently undergoing a major revamp, buzzes with pedestrians. Restaurants require booking. Down on Cable Beach, cameleers are lining up their charges for sunset rides and road-trippers are driving onto the wet sand and setting up camping chairs and cracking beers as they settle in for the show of a lifetime.