Creative Challenge. Sticks and Stones RIP Malcolm Douglas

 

News came through today that one of our True Outback Characters Malcolm Douglas has been killed in a car crash on his Broome Crocodile Park near Broome Western Australia.

Known as the Barefoot Bushman Malcolm Douglas entertained and enthralled people from Australia and across the globe with his excellent documentaries from Australia's Outback.

Here is my small tribute to..

The Outback Bushman,

Who loved the Kimberley's in Western Australia.

Using Sticks and Stones, your Knowledge and Skill

You taught us how to make the kill

With a long straight stick fashioned with a sharpened stone

Then held together with sinew

This is how an aboriginal hunter would feed his tribe

When aimed at a fish

This spear he would throw

With pure precision into a slimy fish the spear head would go.

Or

Spinifex sticks, gathered and lit

Placed onto rock oysters where they sit

The best cooked oysters

You ever Enjoyed!

We loved every bit.

So much we learned from you Malcolm Douglas

About our unique Aussie flora and fauna

We will miss you so much and many of us

 Will surely 'Mourn Ya'

But you leave us so many excellent Docu's of your amazing experiences

Especially your encounters with those salt water crocodiles

Many of them fearsome, prehistoric looking and

Absolutely Enormous!

RIP Malcolm Douglas A True Aussie Adventurer

1941 - 2010

 

I have placed this post in Creative Challenge theme

Sticks and Stones as a different take on the theme.

With out sticks and stones our bushies and Indigenous peoples would never have survived the out back because the ingenious use of sticks and stones kept them going long before colonisation. Now we all learn a new trick or two with the help of Outback adventurers of the likes of Mr Douglas. If you can view the video you will understand.

Milli

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