1. Imagine being given the job of digging three sizeable holes into a rocky ridge, one for each “leg” of a windmill. You’re response may well have been “You’ve got to be joking!” Find out how they worked around nature’s constraints.
2. Why would a tree that has nutritious seeds associated with life rather than death be known as “Dead Finish”? All is revealed about one of Mullewa’s most useful plant species.
3. Its tough living in the scrub around Mullewa. Plants in these harsh conditions can’t be picky – find out why the Saltbush is a successful inhabitant of the slopes.
4. Where would we be without modern communication? Discover how those living in Mullewa managed the task of keep in touch, and connected outback WA with Perth, long before the telephone.
5. ‘Unearth’ the best place to dig for bardi grub from a Wajarri elder.
6. See how the erosive forces of wind and water have created stunning highs and lows in one of the oldest geological regions on earth.
7. Find out why mulga, the most widespread tree species in the dry heart of Australia was so versatile to Wajarri people.
8. Careful, you could be standing in the middle of a highway!
Who traverses the rocky ground in their thousands, leaving a smooth ‘road’ through the ragged outcrops?
9. Kangaroos, euros and bungarras seek shelter and escape the heat of the day in caves among the rocky breakaways. You may see them sleeping peacefully if you are quiet, otherwise you will certainly see evidence of their presence.
10. On the lip of a small breakaway you can stand “on the edge” in more ways that one – the rim of the Yilgarn Block is a massive and ancient formation that underlies much of the interior of Western Australia.
11. Who would have thought today that a fence could last a century? What native materials stood the test of time?
12. Learn to recognise when bush fruit are ripe and how to cook them.
13. One of the more unusual success stories of the northern Wheatbelt, Redland Rose’s white tunnel structures are an unusual site in the farming hinterland, but a source of great community pride for local Wajarri people who help pick and pack the centre’s produce.
14. Search for native lizards among the crevices of a rocky breakaway.
15. You’ve heard of getting blood from stone, so how do you get water from a tree?
16. The bungarra is a widely regarded delicacy among the Wajarri people, making the meal worth the dangers faced in catching it.
17. Aboriginal people learned how to alleviate or cure all kinds of ailments and illness.
Burns, fever and toothaches were all treated with native plants like saltbush, native currant and toothache tree! |
