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Babinda Boulders, officially called the Boulders Scenic Reserve [1] but known locally as Babinda Boulders or simply the Boulders, is a public recreation reserve alongside Babinda Creek, managed by the Cairns Regional Council and adjacent to the Wooroonooran National Park in far north Queensland, Australia.
Devil's Pool is a natural pool in a treacherous stretch of Babinda Creek where large granite boulders fill the creek bed. It is one of the main attractions of the Babinda Boulders scenic reserve, near Babinda, Queensland, Australia. Between 1959 and July 2023, 21 people have drowned at or near the pools.
[1] [6] [2] A plaque embedded on the boulder states that the site is the resting place of 38 Aboriginal People, it shows the Aboriginal flag and lists the Aboriginal Tribes of the deceased. [6] [2] Among Aboriginal Victorians involved in the reburial, the event signified cultural ownership and control, and honouring ancestors through Aboriginal ...
Babinda is a rural town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Babinda and Tully annually compete for the Golden Gumboot , an award for Australia's wettest town. Babinda is usually the winner, recording an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year. [ 4 ]
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Australian Legendary Tales is a translated collection of stories told to K. Langloh Parker by Australian Aboriginal people. The book was immediately popular, being revised or reissued several times since its first publication in 1896, and noted as the first substantial representation of cultural works by Aboriginal Australians .
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies. Aboriginal spirituality includes the Dreamtime (the Dreaming), songlines, and Aboriginal oral literature.
Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.