Boomerang "Remembering Home"

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Current GOAL:  Boomerang "Remembering Home" is in a race with two other TB's to be the first to travel to the northern hemisphere and then return to Canberra, Australia and be logged in a cache owned by alpha993. Photos and stories of the adventures along the way are appreciated and encouraged.

About this item:
The artwork depicted on this keyring was created by Andy Dutka, an artist and member of the Mananura Aboriginal Art Group Descendants of the Darug Aboriginal People.

The Origin of Boomerang
...it was not until 1822 that this fascinating device was described in detail and recorded as a 'bou-mar-rang', from the language of the Turuwal people of the George's River near Port Jackson. What is immediately apparent is that this same people had other words for their hunting sticks but used 'boornarang' to refer to a returning throw-stick. The Turuwal people were a sub-group (the word 'tribe' is inappropriate in speaking of Aboriginal peoples) of the Dharug language group which extended from the shores of Sydney (between Port Jackson and Port Hacking) in the east, to nearly Katoomba in the Blue Mountains to the west. Many of the Aboriginal words we use in English are from the Dharug language, including boomerang, waratah, wallaby, dingo, kookaburra, koala and woomera...
Ref: http://www.boomerang.org.au/articles/article-what-is-a-boomerang.html

Tracking History (14504.9mi) View Map

5/18/2007 alpha993 posted a note for Boomerang "Remembering Home" Alabama   [visit log] MISSING IN ACTION...    12/29/2006 jren118 placed Boomerang "Remembering Home" in Montgomery Travel Bug Hotel Alabama 39.9mi N   [visit log]    12/26/2006 jren118 retrieved Boomerang "Remembering Home" from Troy Travel Bug Hotel Alabama   [visit log] picked up in troy will move along soon    12/13/2006 Florida bug hunters placed Boomerang "Remembering Home" in Troy Travel Bug Hotel Alabama 311.2mi NW   [visit log]    9/17/2006 Florida bug hunters retrieved Boomerang "Remembering Home" from Beam Me Up Florida   [visit log] We'll let this one go soon. One question....when we let it go will it come back?    8/19/2006 girlzgo placed Boomerang "Remembering Home" in Beam Me Up Florida 3.4mi N   [visit log]    7/28/2006 girlzgo retrieved Boomerang "Remembering Home" from The Temple of Doom in Croom (Golgotha) Florida   [visit log] very cool TB! wish australia was in my travel plans...    5/25/2006 m^3 placed Boomerang "Remembering Home" in The Temple of Doom in Croom (Golgotha) Florida 806.1mi S   [visit log] I dropped it here because I didn't want to carry it around in longer. This cache isn't visited all that often, but I get to the area fairly frequently. If it sits here a while, I swing back by and snag him to move it somewhere else.    5/10/2006 m^3 retrieved Boomerang "Remembering Home" from Treasure Island Pennsylvania   [visit log] Since this TB is involved in a race, I didn't want to leave it in this seldom-visited cache (today was the first visit in 3 months). So the Boomerang just got to visit the cache. (picture forthcoming)    5/10/2006 m^3 placed Boomerang "Remembering Home" in Treasure Island Pennsylvania 37.6mi SE   [visit log]