Women's Business

Once the kangaroos and fish are hunted and brought back to camp, it's time for the cooking which is done in pits with hot stones and ashes. The kangaroo tails are wrapped in Alfoil and the damper is cooked on a plate over a fire. Girls prepared the kangaroo tails and damper for the tourists. I'm ashamed to say that due to visions of Skippy hopping around my head, I was totally unable to eat my pieces of kangaroo tail and fed them to a passing dog which was most grateful .... though the damper was good. One young woman had visions of a whole lot of tailless kangaroos hopping around but an old fella assured us that the other parts of the kangaroos were "all gone - good tucker".

There were arts & crafts exhibitions and a photographic exhibition at the Community Education Centre. Aboriginal culture does not allow photos of people who have died so it was sad to see group photos with black spots over the faces of people who have died.

Girls also painted up the tourists for their dancing lessons. They put white clay onto arms, legs and faces. I was hoping to avoid the face painting but a girl insisted that I had to be properly "painted up" for corroboree - face too!