Went to the Ranger’s office for a walk and talk with a national park guide on the aboriginal foods in a km walk. The guide was an aboriginal lass from this area called Cynthia (one of the traditional owners). To our
The talk was quite good, but she was shy and really didn’t know much beyond what she had planned to tell us. She did say that she was still learning. Her grandmother has been a source of a lot of her information.
Paul, she told us about a few bush medicines, do you know if any research is being done on these? Maybe a possible project who knows.
Went out to Kuipers Point in the afternoon looking for cockles to use for fishing tomorrow, we found quite a few and some enormous oysters (seems a shame to use them as bait, but no one wants to eat them..
John, Lanlan, Greg, Wanda, Dean and Karen went to the estuary and were quite successful, John caught 2, Greg caught 2, Karen caught 5; all on hermit crabs that Lanlan and Karen caught.
Tony came back with an alarming tale about a croc. He was fishing off some rocks when he suddenly felt scared. He backed off and moved down the rocks, still feeling scared, he looked around and saw – a large salty just up the beach eyeing him off. He had no success with the fishing though. He did however see quite a few banteng cattle, they only appear after sunset. Most of have yet to see them.
John and Lanlan saw a wild pig, there is an eradication program on to cull the pigs. You can go on a hunt with a professional hunter to kill a banteng (only $10000 for a head). Apparently these banteng are valuable since they are purebred, having been isolated from all other beasts.
Jill P has been bird watching an dis quite pleased with the ones she has spotted. Michael, Tony, Jen and I saw 3 brolgas and 2 Jabirus on the way back from our bait gathering.
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