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Australian Traveller Magazine loves our 'Rock Art Retreat' tour. Read the story in the Outback Issue.
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The New York Times’ top travel list for 2013 is out and Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region is named as one of the best places in the world to visit. The Kimberley was the only Australian destination to earn a place in the ‘Top 46′ list, taking out the number 19 spot. Tim Neville from the [...]
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Luxury bush camp Faraway Bay in the Kimberley is hosting two Rock Art Retreats this year. The four-day retreats include tours to rare indigenous art sites not usually accessed by the general public. Read story by The Sunday Times' Escape Travel writer, Angela Saurine.
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Faraway Bay, The Bush Camp will host two rock art retreats from May 2-6 and from July 15-19. Participants will get a chance to see some of the finest examples of the late Pleistocene Bradshaw style of rock art in Australia. Click to read the story. …or for more information on our Rock Art Retreats, [...]
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Remote North Kimberley wilderness retreat Faraway Bay has added exhilarating helicopter flights as an optional extra for guests during their stay at the multi-award-winning bush camp. Read the full story here.
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“Being on the edge of forever.” That’s how Australian Mining Magazine describes a stay at Faraway Bay in its latest R&R special feature supplement. It’s the perfect holiday for the workers in the mining industry. Read the full story here.
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WA has enough to entice even the most sophisticated traveller, discovers Jessica Zoiti. Read the full story here…
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Glamping [glamorous + camping] – a form of going camping, with glamour. It’s like regular camping, but with nicer things than usual – being warmer, good food and the physical comforts associated with more luxurious types of holiday. Faraway Bay has been showcased as one of the top 12 Australian Glamping Experiences on Tourism Australia’s [...]
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Winemaker supremo Larry Cherubino will be heading north to the award-winning wilderness retreat Faraway Bay in the Kimberley for a few days – and you could be joining him. Check out the full story here…
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Luxury East Kimberley retreat Faraway Bay has a new Escape with the Winemaker experience from June 26-28. Find out more here…
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Nathan Dyer flies to the northern tip of WA and truly gets away from it all. Check out the full story here…
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by Shelley Ross Nestled on a rocky hilltop overlooking the Timor Sea, Faraway Bay is going to reaffirm your faith in the lure of the Kimberley. Shelley Ross calls in for a visit and doesn’t want to leave.
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by Nathan Dyer They say time at Faraway Bay is measured in tides and sunsets. The water is clear and deep and the big sky an endless blue. Sound like paradise? Well, that’s because it is. For Perth business couple Kevin and Kathie Reilly the utopian blue waters of Faraway Bay on the remote Kimberley [...]
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Words & Photography Belinda Jackson Wild and untouched, the remote Kimberley is waiting for the adventurous explorer. There’s a dream-like quality to north-western Australia. High up in the Kimberley, the land is layered with legends and mystical happenings. You discover ancient lives and wilderness so remote, its creeks and headlands have names known only to those [...]
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AUSTRALIA Get lost at Faraway Bay. in the secluded northwest corner or Australia. Wine, water and wildlife lovers will find each need met at this true escape from it all. Eat Catch dinner daily at Eagle Lodge, a cliff-top eatery that specializes in fresh seafood (like barramundi) and locally grown produce. Play Let the great outdoors be [...]
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FARAWAY BAY BUSH CAMP is what it says it is: a bush camp. It’s sleeping under a mosquito net, geckos climbing the walls at night, waking to a 5.30am sunrise, keeping an eye out for snakes and the resident crocodile, and showering outdoors in a cubicle of corrugated tin. The indulgence is in the solitude and [...]
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by David Hogan The Kimberley remains one of the world’s most inaccessible and isolated destinations. It is a land of extremes. While difficult to appreciate from the ground, a helicopter is the ideal way to appreciate the sheer scale and stunning beauty of this fascinating region. If you travel by Squirrel, like we did, you [...]
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Faraway Bay, the Kimberley, Western Australia I’ve just returned from a holiday to Faraway Bay, located about an hour by plane from Kununurra in the far north of Australia. The resort only takes 12 guests at a time and the fishing is wonderful. Crucially, so is the food – truly memorable dishes using produce fresh [...]
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At 5am in Faraway Bay, nobody is asleep. Not the rock wallabies, which shuffle away into the dusty scrub, wary of the morning sun inching its way along the sapphire-blue Timor Sea and up the rocky cliffs, making the orange sandstone glow stronger by the minute. Not the geckos, either. They silently move into the [...]
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After so many years of travelling for a living, I’m sure some people think I must have been everywhere. The joy of travel, though, is that it’s infinite. There are always new places to discover, to dream about and to wish for. Right now, I’m starry-eyed about the remote Faraway Bay in the Kimberley, the [...]
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Earlier this year, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman found themselves in the diminutive but thriving East Kimberley township of Kununurra, just west of the Western Australia/Northern Territory border. In town for the filming of Australia, director Baz Luhrmann’s latest blockbuster, the two actors were quick to wax lyrical about their love of the Kimberley region [...]
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Perched at the top of Western Australia’s Kimberley Coast, Faraway Bay lives up to its name. Words and photos by Belinda Jackson It was late afternoon when it finally hits me: I can’t hear a thing. The air is still and all animals (including people) have been lured into a gentle siesta by the luxurious [...]
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