Bunurong Summer Traditional Cache
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This location is one of Phillip Island's hidden gems. As you enjoy the scenic walk along the coastal track, let your imagination wander as well, to picture this area's original inhabitants...
The Bunurong (also spelt Bunwurrung, Boonwerung, Bunurowrung, Boonoorong, Bururong) aboriginal people were custodians of this stretch of coast for thousands of years prior to white settlement. Together with the Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri People), Wathaurong (Wathaurong People), Daungwurrung (Taungurong People) and the Dja Dja Wrung (Jaara People) they made up the Koolin (also spelt Kulin) nation. Bunurong People prefer to be known as Koolin rather than Koori, which is a word from a different language.
Bunurong territory extended along the northern, eastern and southern shorelines of Port Phillip, the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port and south-east to Wilsons Promontory. This territory was known to the Koolin as the marr ne bek or ‘excellent country’, as it had an abundance of food resources.
The Yalloc Bulluk are one of the largest clans of Bunurong People. Their traditional land took in the eastern catchment of Westernport Bay, also the catchment of the Powlett River, French Island and Phillip Island. Yalloc Bulluk People changed with the seasons – though this didn't always mean a move to another camp, it almost always involved a change in diet as certain resources become abundant and others faded until the next season.
YALLOC BULLUK SUMMER
During the warm summer months, the Yalloc Bulluk would make bark canoes and visit French Island and Phillip Island to catch seal and mutton birds. Other days would be spent foraging the Westernport Bay’s many tidal flats or the rocky platforms of the Bass Coast for their favourite shellfish, or perhaps fishing for snapper at the mouth of one of the many mangrove inlets that run into the northeastern side of Westernport Bay. A part of everyday was the 1-2 hours spent harvesting indigenous vegetables and fruits such as orchid bulbs or wild currants.
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