10C overnight, the coldest so far. Up early for the 7:45am tag along tour start. Jeff and Helen are off to Miners Camp near Drysdale Station intending to do a flyover of the Mitchell Falls.
We take off on the culural tour led by Phil in the lead vehicle, we are the only tagalong. Home made cookies with fruit juice for morning tea at a river crossing.
We stop to look at Aboriginal art aound a rocky outcrop, some Bradshaw drawings as well as modern art.
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| Bradshaw figures |
Lunch at a water hole, skull and bones overseeing the pond circa 1900. There is a major aboriginal artwork here that was touched up and ruined under a government funded program. Disgusting someone should be shot! The so called touch up was by non-local aborigines and did not use traditional art methods, rather it was done with acrylic paints which are already peeling and don't look like aboriginal rock art.
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| Gov't Funded Art Destruction |
Some quotes from Phil: on a bushfire "black lightning", on how much booze to bring to the Kimberley "whatever amount of booze you are planning for the Gibb double it".
The Bradshaw paintings are dated to 17,000 years ago, they are not part of the culture of modern aborigines. Apparently the area became very arid for 10,000 years and supported no life
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| Bradshaw Art |
We get back to the station after a very enjoyable tour and I manage to buy some home made cookies like those we had for morning tea from the office.
While backing up the car to be able to re-hitch in the morning I manage to remodel the arse end by backing into a tree in the blind spot on the right hand rear corner. Mostly damage to the plastic rear mudguard.
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