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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Rosamund Brennan

‘This place is a gem’: in remote Australia, a cultural festival thousands of years in the making

Festivalgoers from the air
The Jamba Nyinayi festival in Western Australia represents a homecoming of sorts for the Baiyungu people, who own and run the two-night cultural camping event. Photograph: Violeta J Brosig/Blue Media Exmouth

Our tyres crunch on the dusty gravel driveway as we reach the edge of Cardabia station. Peering out across its vast salt flats, Hazel Walgar falls silent, drinking in the beauty before our eyes. “Look at it … I’ve never seen it like this before,” says Walgar, a Baiyungu traditional owner who grew up on Gunjayindiya, as the station is also known.

“Wow, I’ve got shivers!” Walgar’s granddaughter Relisha Dingo chimes in from the driver’s seat.

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