ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Most days, the Fitzroy River doesn’t look like much.
Wide. Quiet. Slow moving.
But this river drains a vast part of the Kimberley — and when the wet season comes, everything feeds into it.
What seems calm can become something else entirely.
This is a river defined not by how it looks… but by what it can become.
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