Stradbroke Dreamtime

Oodgeroo (stories)
Bronwyn’s Bancroft (illustrations)

Original published 1972 this update 1993

Note: First Nations Quandamooka people (‘people of the bay’) know North Stradbroke Island as Minjerribah meaning ‘place of many mosquitoes’.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quandamooka_people

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#EasternCurlew #Dugongs #Mudflats #SeaGrasses #Mangroves #ExtinctionIsForever

“Every summer for hundreds – probably thousands – of years, eastern curlews and other long-distance flyers have recuperated at #Toondah Harbour on Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, after their massive journeys back from the northern hemisphere.

#ToondahHarbour #RAMSAR #RAMSARWetlands #Meanjin #Brisbane #Quandamooka #Minjerribah #Mulgumpin #Qldpol #ExtinctionRebellion

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2024/jan/27/why-tanya-plibersek-must-save-the-eastern-curlew-from-the-wetland-wrecking-project-at-toondah-harbour

First call for session themes and workshops for the Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) meeting on Minjerribah next year. It is bound to be a good time, in a beautiful spot. Come and join us!

#AusQuaternary #AQUA #conference #Minjerribah

Another underwater GoPro selfie

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