Wednesday, March 21, 2007

This is Part of the Tjilbruke Dreaming Trail.



The Dreaming
South of the wreck site, opposite a small cave there is a permanent, freshwater spring on Port Willunga Beach, that weeps or bubbles from the sand. Birds are frequently seen drinking from the spring.
There is another to the north of the wreck site, on the northern side of Blanche Point, at Maslin Bay. Both springs are features of the Tjilbruke Dreaming, marking the sorrow of Tjilbruke, grieving his dead, beloved nephew. 
The Tjilbruke Dreaming is the predominant dreaming of Southern Kaurna country. It is about the creation of seven freshwater springs along the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
The coast along the western shore of Fleurieu Peninsula, from Kingston Park to Cape Jervis, has several names witnessing to its sacred stories. The Kaurna People know it as part of the Tjilbruke Dreaming
The Coast of Sorrows, and the South Australia's European history records the site of the wreck of the Star of Greece, at Pt Willunga, as The Tragic Shore. Of concern here is the coast near Port Willunga, from Blanche Point to Schnapper Point and Aldinga Bay. 
It is a place of rugged beauty containing places of lost dreams, of ecologies lost to over-clearing, lowered water tables and erosion, of fishing runs over-fished and exhausted, of marine reefs and sea-grass beds made deserts by pollution from septic tanks and water discharged from gutters and drains, of jetties built and destroyed by wind and wave, of mining ventures depleted or obsolete. Yet this is also a hopeful place. A Marine Reserve attempts to manage the remaining life on the the coastal reefs and the beaches are clean. The coast is the playground of many, where air, sea and sand entertains families and surfies, anglers and snorklers, scuba divers and hang-gliding pilots, para-sailing sportsmen and campers, while the rich and influential carve out prime sites as real estate with a view.
Information sourced from The Voice.




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