CW ~ Creery Wetlands Traditional Cache
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This is one of a short series of caches placed inside the Creery Wetlands. It is small sistema in the fork of a tree.
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The Creery Wetlands...
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The walk trails, hides, viewing platforms and information shelters at the Creery Wetlands Nature Reserves provide a window into this unique and fragile environment.
Entry is free and is open every day.
Many years ago the Creery Wetlands was once a place of life and colour. The Nyoongar people had a great spiritual and harmonic connection to this land.
The wetlands once provided a place for the Nyoongars to camp and they would only use materials that the land provided for them. This could have included things such as the fine needle-like leaves of the Grass Tree, tea-tree branches and paper bark. All of these materials would have been used to make a small shelter called a Mia.
It was also a place that had huge abundances of life, providing many different foods. Spears made from the tea-tree branches, boomerangs made from the branches of the She-Oak and Jarrah trees and sharp knives would have been used to hunt kangaroos, possums, emu fish and ducks. Nothing more than needed was taken and nothing was wasted, for example: the kangaroo was hunted for its meat but the bones were used as needles, the sinew as thread and using these materials they would sew two or more kangaroo skins together to make booka’s and koodah’s, which was a source of clothing.
Edible plants included the nuts from the Zamia palm and the grass tree, which acted as both a water and food source. You could obtain the water by chewing the white fleshy bases of the young needle-like leaves and the edible Bardi grub was usually found living in the trunk of grass trees Other edible plants were the samphire, which was used as a salt replacement and quandongs.
The Creery Wetlands has an amazing amount of cultural significance to it and it’s important that we preserve what’s left of the wetlands so that future generations can enjoy both its historic values and natural beauty for many years to come.
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