Sunday, July 4, 2010

NAIDOC week

Today is the first day of NAIDOC week, a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. We spent the day at Ku-ring-gai National Park, learning how to make a humpy (don't google "humpy", just click on the word... trust me), eating bushtucka, drinking billy tea and practicing our spear throwing skills.

It was a typical sunny Sydney day and Ku-ring-gai National Park was nothing less than stunning. It's about an hour north of us, and while we were there, I remarked to Vic that I couldn't believe we've lived in Sydney for almost 2 years now and have only now ventured into this park. It made me feel slightly panicky at all the things we haven't yet seen and only a year or so left in our oz-venture. Perhaps not a coincidence, when we got home Vic immediately hopped on the computer to start researching possible locations for an upcoming holiday.

Gus trying out a humpy.

Bushtucka

Billy tea

Bushwalking.

An Aboriginal rock carving.

Gus, trying his hand at spearing a goanna




3 comments:

Unknown said...

I guess we will have to go back to Australia so we can go to Ku-ring -gai

Dana said...

Hi Mom: Yes you will!

Unknown said...

Ku-ring-gai....that's close to where we lived. We'll be returning to OZ in a short while (August). I'd love to meet up with you, if you're willing....