The spirit beings of BUGARREGARRE created all life as we know it. They enabled spirit to take form and gave us the law. This way everything could function in harmony. This law encoded in the Song cycle that has been passed down unbroken since creation. It is our record of history. It is the Lawkeepers , lawpeople, and Custodians job is to keep passing BUGARREGARRE ceremonies and stories from one generation to the next.

As we now share our country with many other people, our population is increasing and country is coming under more developmental pressure. Our Senior Custodians saw the importance of teaching newcomers and visitors to minimize the impact on us and BUGARREGARRE.

History lesson on our middens.

Through the teaching you can learn and appreciate the healing power of the living land as we know it.

For the past ten years we've been teaching people from all over the world on the LURUJARRI DREAMING TRAIL. We take you on a journey through part of the song cycle where our ancestors have lived since the beginning of time.

Day one-Setting off-Sunset beauty

The terrain is diverse and beautiful. LURUJARRI means coastal dunes which describes this stretch of country, the red pindan cliffs are known as Yanijarri..

On the coast, reefs exposed at low water allow hand spear fishing in pools or with lines from the rocks. Hermit crabs and feeding wader bird communities scour the wet sand with their feet. Big tides disguise rock landscapes under high water. Shuffling stone beds scuttle and murmur as the waves drain away. Only a couple of the places have these talking rocks.

Further north, red cliffs overlook black sand and are threaded with ochre seams. The cliffs glow at dusk and sea eagles nest above. Some of the campsites lie on the beach and on Pindan country.

Unlike the coast open to the oceans, the Mangrove estuaries are strangely quiet . Tidal streams rise and fall over hours to submerge or drain the mud corridors beneath. Crabs hide amongst the breathing root prongs in hollows near tree bases. Canopies knit overhead causing dappled light. The Mangroves are major fishing places.

In the hinter dunes the bush may alternatively be paperbark shade belts near waterholes. Or wide thickets of native tucker trees where we forage for seasonal fruit and honey. These are major habitats for feeding and nesting for chorusing birds and bats. Midden sights are scattered through the dunes overlooking both Indian Ocean and Pindan country inland.

Wattles White gums, Bloodwood and Hakeas make up more open sun parched inland country. White gums glow against sunsets that burn this country Orange.