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We\u2019ve mentioned that the Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago are rich with Aboriginal rock art sites, and one of the best concentrations can be found close to Hearson\u2019s Cove for a combined day out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trail leads you along a dry creek and into an impressive gorge strewn with granite boulders and growing lone kurrajong trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take your time to study the many petroglyphs, a great deal of which depict the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), extinct now for almost a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking the gorge you\u2019ll also get a feel for the way of life of the Jaburara Tribe: Shell middens are long-surviving testament to their diet, while the granite boulders would offer shelter from the elements and the creek, now mostly dry, would have been a reliable water source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve mentioned that the Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago are rich with Aboriginal rock art sites, and one of the best concentrations can be found close to Hearson\u2019s Cove for a combined day out. The trail leads you along a dry creek and into an impressive gorge strewn with granite boulders and growing lone kurrajong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karrathacentralapartments.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}