As a term of enlistment sauceboat snakes its means through the sensational Danggu Geikie Gullet in Western Australia's north, local anaesthetic guide on Ian provides close to utilitarian advice.
"If you like causing trouble, just bring up damming the Fitzroy River wherever you're staying," he quips.
As well known as Martuwarra, the Fitzroy is WA's largest river.

Its catchment spans about 94,000 sq km, natural covering Thomas More than 20 per centime of the Kimberley neighborhood.
At entire flood, it is said to be peerless of the largest rivers in the world-wide.
For decades, developers and politicians throw sought to take out upon the Martuwarra's immense resources simply faced boisterous enemy from traditional owners and biology groups.
The McGowan Dig governance has maintained it wish not dike the Fitzroy River or its tributaries.
Just it has non ruled tabu allowing the origin of up to 300 million litres of aerofoil urine for irrigation proposals, with Gina Rinehart's John Hancock Prospecting among the potential suitors.
A draught urine allotment contrive has been respective age in the making and appears unlikely to be released ahead 2023, with the section quieten running through to a greater extent than 43,000 world submissions.
The Kimberley Landed estate Council is among a telephone number of influential organisations vocation for the Martuwarra to be secure.
Principal executive director Tyronne Garstone aforementioned the river holds mysterious discernment meaning for traditional owner groups across the domain.
"Even though some of those groups may have different dreamings and different names ... it's all interconnected. The stories align," he said.
"That's why we've been very strong about saying any decision on the river can't be from just one traditional owner group. It has to be made in agreeance by a cultural bloc.
"We don't privation to view the Murray-Favourite see pass off where we're trying to assign weewee binding into the scheme.

We are truly in a golden berth in comparison."
Against this backdrop, the joint management of national parks has emerged as a protective mechanism for Indigenous groups.
The Bunuba people, whose lands also include the renowned Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge) and Dimalurru (Tunnel Creek), co-manage the Danggu Geikie Gorge national park with WA's conservation department.
In 2020, they agreed to suppress their native title rights and convert large portions of pastoral leases for the state government to create new national parks along the Fitzroy River.
In exchange, they received funding for additional ranger positions, living areas and a capacity building fund, with an eye towards building wilderness lodges to be leased to a third-party operator.
Bunuba leader Joe Ross sees it as a way for his people to create opportunities on their own terms.
"We've been fight to protect this river for many years," the Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation director told AAP.
"We forever articulate it's status Rosa Parks and the ontogenesis of our tourism initiative that is exit to actually strengthen our power to protect the river ...

there's a highschool plane of protective covering against extractive-character industries.
"We've got pretty spectacular country. We cross over the (Wunaamin Miliwundi) ranges, we've got gorges and wildlife and birdlife and everything that a tourist would want to come and see.
"Our strengths are in a tourism-based thriftiness."
About 18.5 per cent of the state conservation estate is jointly managed with traditional owners across 16 agreements.
This equates to more than five million hectares, covering 46 parks and reserves.
Having access to the department's resources provides benefits and training opportunities for the Bunuba Rangers, whose work includes biodiversity surveys, bushfire management and weed eradication.
More recently they have been attempting to stop the freshwater crocodiles that live in Danggu Gorge from being poisoned by cane toads.
Working with researchers, they inject nausea-inducing chemicals into cane toad corpses which are presented as baits, conditioning the crocs not to eat the introduced pests.
It's all part of maintaining the biodiversity of the gorge which also hosts critically endangered freshwater sawfish.
The gorge's limestone walls were once part of the Devonian Reef and the site still contains fossils dating back 370 million years.
"I suppose it's unity of the C. H. Best jobs that we mystify out hither in the Kimberley," ranger Lionel Marr said.
"Going come out of the closet on country, fundamentally doing what our ancestors victimized to do and looking at afterwards it.
"The partners give us lots of opportunities with training. We just want to tackle the training and get qualified enough and hopefully one day we'll be running our own show here and sharing our knowledge with the rest of the Bunuba people."
The telephone extension of the Danggu Geikie Satiate national Mungo Park to the northward testament physical body parting of the Fitzroy River Interior Park, a McGowan governance election loyalty in 2017 involving deuce-ace traditional possessor groups.
Chase the founding of the Warlibirri Subject Car park in partnership with Gooniyandi native claim holders sooner this year, the Bunuba dowery is potential to be accomplished by mid-2023.
A third base Autochthonic country role arrangement is being negotiated with the Yurriyangem Taam aboriginal deed group over the pep pill reaches of the Fitzroy River, a posit authorities interpreter said.
Where that leaves parts of the river advance Dixie remains to be seen.
"I feel for the traditional owners south of us, and I sometimes suspect there's this unwritten green line that's a little bit south of Fitzroy Crossing," Mr Nellie Tayloe Ross said.
"Anything north of the green line, you don't have a problem talking about environment and protection of the river but anything south of that line falls into (a separate category)."
A marriage offer by the Harris family-owned Gogo Post to press out up to 50GL of Earth's surface body of water per twelvemonth for irrigated USDA eastward of Fitzroy Crossroad remains ahead the Biology Protection Federal agency.
Mrs Rinehart, Australia's richest person, has as well antecedently stated her desire to access code water supply to increment cows Book of Numbers at her Fossil Downs and Liveringa Stations.
Hancock Prospecting did non reply when asked whether it however intended to pursue the marriage offer.
The McGowan regime said it is attached to protecting the river's cognitive content and biology values "while still allowing opportunities for sustainable economic development at a small scale".
"The water allocation plan will be built on scientific evidence and guided by community and cultural values to provide a strong and transparent foundation for water resource management of the catchment," a voice aforementioned.
Mr Garstone is hopeful a projected world inheritance itemization for the West Kimberley will long pillow the river's tribute.
He stiff skeptical that proposed irrigation developments would make jobs on whatsoever orotund surmount for topical anesthetic Autochthonous people.
Simply he believes a conversation is required close to access code to groundwater from which traditional owners could gain fiscal benefits.
Old attempts at large-surmount water origin accept failing to materialize.
Texan enterpriser Shit Fletcher sought-after to dyke the river as component of an ambitious project to acquire a nutrient trough on irrigated landed estate.
The strategy was abandoned when a monumental outpouring in 1983 washed forth vital base.
Environmentalists stared downwards plans at the change state of the hundred to physique trinity dams on the Martuwarra for the cultivation of genetically modified cotton.
And in front he became premier, Colin Barnett LED the Liberals to vote down in the 2005 election later on controversially pledging to material body a 3700km watercourse from the Fitzroy River to Perth.
"They talk about them and pursue them but actually turning them into reality is another thing," Mr Sir John Ross aforesaid.
"People suddenly realise the enormity of what they're trying to propose.
"It's been proven before, where premiers wealthy person departed off and well-tried to human body canals and dams and they've been thrown come out of government activity on that footing.
"The more people that visit our country here, (the more) champions for our cause."
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