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#30 Billabong in #warumungu country.

26 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker stands beside a billabong located just outside the front door of their camp. They explain that the area fills with water during the wet season and that they are currently harvesting the topsoil to use later for gardens and vegetables. The speaker emphasizes that the numerous anthills in the area are sacred to the Wurundjeri people and must not be disturbed. They note that the ants become more active and the anthills grow taller as the wet season approaches, serving as a natural indicator of rising water levels. The speaker admires the landscape, highlighting how anthills blanket the country and describing the scene as beautiful.

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The billabong outside the front door of our camp. This whole area will fill up with water when the wet comes. We're currently harvesting the topsoil because more will come in, um, for gardens, vegetables, etc. All the anthills are sacred to my people, to the Wurundjeri. So you can't disturb them. But this whole area fills up with water in the wet, and you can tell the wet's coming because the ants get busy and the anthills grow to try and get above it. Absolutely beautiful, um, bit of land. See, notice how far the anthills go. They're all over the place. I mean, totally cover the country.