Here is another lot of photos taken by various participants on a trip out to some local
woodland that has many young and straight saplings suitable for spear making.
ralston
in the middle of the bushland there is a giant rock formation that had some untouched and very old looking indigenous artwork. We asked a bunch of the boys if they thought it would be okay to use the pictures for the blog and they gave us the go-ahead to use use with permission:
one of Jobfind CDEP’s mentors dale gives a thumbs up to Ralstons photo:
Edmond & Lemmy
Ralston with some freshly collected soon-to-be spears
Wayne and Lemmy in the process of removing the bark
Edmond with a selfie
The boys dry out their spears to remove the bark
Wayne holds up one of his spears in the making, as seen on our instagram account
Edmond with some tools of the trade, machetes for cutting and stripping bark off saplings for spears
(amongst other things!)
Luke with more tools of the trade…
The good ol’ Jobfind CDEP troopy
Drving back to Angurugu through some localized bushfire smoke, no danger.
it’s a common sight here on wild Groote Eylandt!
