Number of
nights away from home: 15
Number of hotels: 5
Number of flights (including connector flights): 7
Places visited: Cairns, Bamaga, the northern-most tip of Australia (!) Yungaburra, Melbourne, Broome
Number of Australian languages worked on/with: 6
Number of hotels: 5
Number of flights (including connector flights): 7
Places visited: Cairns, Bamaga, the northern-most tip of Australia (!) Yungaburra, Melbourne, Broome
Number of Australian languages worked on/with: 6
Phew, September wore me out and I am still feeling it. The trip to far north Queensland was amazing though - so I am posting some photos. One is a view of a river joining the Gulf of Carpentaria, taken from our light aircraft, and the other is from the tip of Cape York, looking out into the Torres Strait at two small islands just over the way.
In Bamaga, I worked with a group of sisters from a family who had been part of the forced relocation of the Mapoon community in 1963. They now live 200km north, up on the Cape, in a new community called "New Mapoon". You can read an article I found about that sad story here. Cape York was fascinating in many ways. Still thinking about it all and hoping to write something soon, but that's all for now.
