{"id":136,"date":"2015-12-23T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T16:52:05","slug":"27-9-7-00-rockhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/KevinCroll.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"27: 9-7-00 Rockhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rockhampton<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>9\/7\/00<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thursday<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:35 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, now I\u2019m sort of glad I\u2019ve spent some time here in Rocky. I just finished my guided tour of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Attraction_Review-g255071-d1063225-Reviews-Dreamtime_Cultural_Centre-Rockhampton_Queensland.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dreamtime Cultural Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Very interesting place. I took the bus up here &amp; I missed the beginning of the tour. I came in on the talk by a lady from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torres_Strait\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Torres Straits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A nice lady. She was. From there in the hut we went into a giant dagong (or dangal, in her language). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Editor: Can\u2019t find info on dangal or dagong?]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They had some pictures &amp; artifacts in there to look at. The tour finished with a boomerang lesson and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Didgeridoo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">didgeridoo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> demonstration. I then had an hour until the start of the next tour, so I milled around a bit, bought a few boomerangs, had some ice cream, and the like. I wanted to buy a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bullroarer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bull roarer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but they weren\u2019t selling any at the time. I also wanted an authentic didgeridoo, but they were $160 US and I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d get it home. So anyhow, I went back for the first half hour of the tour at 1:00 \u2026 and I was the only one. It was nice, though. The girl was new but she did a good job. The talk was mainly about the people of the Great <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npsr.qld.gov.au\/parks\/pdf\/cq-sandstone-belt-vg.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandstone Belt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (or something), also known as the Stencil People. They are responsible for the majority of the stencil wall paintings. The reason is that the sandstone is great for stencilling, but terrible for any dark image or brush paintings. They finished with a tale about a lake (Nagga Nagga or the like) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Editor: Lake <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Nuga_Nuga\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nuga Nuga<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that dried up overnight in 1942, but then water returned within 24 hours. An Aborigine said the Rainbow Serpent was angry about the abuse the lake had suffered, so it drank all the water up. To this day they don\u2019t know what happened. Maybe it was a serpent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockhampton 9\/7\/00 Thursday 1:35 PM OK, now I\u2019m sort of glad I\u2019ve spent some time here in Rocky. I just finished my guided tour of the Dreamtime Cultural Center. Very interesting place. 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