Yumbalay Travel Update and the Pandemic of Disconnection - By Pearl Andrews

August 06, 2021 3 Comments

Nearly 6 months ago we left our home on Bundjalung Country to learn and grow and explore around Australia. Now, in Exmouth on the opposite side of the country, our experiences and perspectives have grown and changed dramatically.

Takayna - By Pearl Andrews

April 24, 2021 2 Comments

I am writing to you from Wadawurrung Country in Anglesea, Victoria. Kowunduh and I are very grateful and excited to be staying with some friends in a house for a little while in this beautiful location, with amazing surf beaches and lots of exploring to be done.

Yumbalay - 'Travel' in Bundjalung/Yaegl - By Pearl Andrews

March 09, 2021 2 Comments

It is exactly four weeks, 1 month, today since Kowunduh and I left our comfortable familiar life at home in Ocean Shores to explore and yumabalay/yumbalilla (travel) this Beautiful Country; to learn more about the knowledge this sacred land holds and in turn the knowledge held within ourselves.

Bundjalung Words for Animals

April 04, 2020 1 Comment

Here is a list of animals found in the wider Bundjalung region and their language translations.

Bundjalung Words

April 04, 2020 18 Comments

It is so wonderful that we have access to Bundjalung language and that we can keep it going by using it in our everyday lives with the names of local animals, plants, places, body parts etc.

Bundjalung Nation

April 04, 2020

The Bundjalung Nation (also spelt Bandjalang, Banjalang, bunjulung, bunjalung or Badjelang) has become a general term for the whole language area stretching the far North East Coast of NSW and the Southern Eastern coast of Queensland. It extends from Grafton on the Clarence River in the South to the Logan River in the North and inland as far as the Great Dividing Range at Tenterfield and Warwick.

Wollumbin, The Warrior Chief & the Turkey

April 04, 2020 8 Comments

Wollumbin stands as a majestic mountain in a bowl – shaped valley surrounded by a ring of mountain ranges, the Mt Warning Caldera.

Here are a couple of local dreaming stories about this beautiful mountain and its surrounds.

Bundjalung names for local birds

April 04, 2020 3 Comments

I've had a request for some Bundjalung bird names to be shared on our website….so here they are.

All these words and others on our website come from a “Dictionary of Western Bundjaung” compiled by Margaret Sharpe, and takes in these main dialects; Birihn ( Rapville), Gidhabal (Woodenbong), Wahlubal (Tabulan), Wehlubal (Baryulgil) and Wudjebal (tenterfield)

Local Bush Tucker - Bottlebrush flowers

January 23, 2020

Sweet delicious nectar that bees and birds drink up with purpose and pleasure.

FIRE MANAGEMENT!

January 22, 2020 1 Comment

A personal view and reflection on the fires that burned recently 2019-2020

The beginnings of Planet Corroboree

January 22, 2020

Planet Corroboree was created for many reasons. One main one is because these two boys were born. Without them Planet Corroboree would not exist.

Dadirri - Deep listening

February 28, 2019 1 Comment

Aboriginal people practice deep listening, an almost spiritual skill, based on respect. Sometimes called 'Dadirri', deep listening is inner, quiet, still awareness, and waiting.