00:03I can visualise it, this flat rock area where we didn't cross over and then the
00:08sheep wouldn't go down the middle. I can always remember the water there so they
00:12wouldn't, we'd take them along here to cross over, it's a natural crossing. My
00:17name's Carol Pettison and we're here in the Shire of Jerramunga. I can remember
00:25as a child we worked for the Hassel family that had Jerramunga or Yarramup, we used to
00:32call it then. My mum and dad and her dad before her were shepherds. There was no
00:39fences around so our people took care of the sheep and we drove sheep through the
00:46bush and it was like a parkland.
00:52It makes me also think about these place names and places that we lived at. We
00:58only knew them by their Noongar name and that name was sort of descriptive of that
01:04location, like Devil. Devil Creek was because of this water bubbling. Yarramup is... Yarrar means tall,
01:13mo is a yate tree and my understanding is that's the only place around here where
01:20the yate trees grow on a hill and you can see that from 50 k's away. So when the
01:27people said Yarramup, you knew where to go because the land, you know, the hills, we'd
01:31follow the hills and the landmarks to know where we were going. This looks like a an
01:38ancient lizard trap that our people used to use to trap lizards and really what
01:44they'd find a flat piece of rock like this that would have been sitting on top
01:50of there and you can and they put these stones underneath it so that the lizard
01:55runs under it and hides. But in reality he forgets that he leaves his tail sticking
02:01out. And so we used to grab his tail, pull his tail out like he was spinning around and
02:07around and trying to hit him and that's lunch. When you look at the bush, I mean it's our
02:12kitchen, it's our dining room, it's our yarning room, it's our classroom. It's home. It's home.
02:23It's home. It's home. It's home. It's home. It's home. It's home. It's home. It's home.
02:28We learn to listen to birds because when they stop making a noise and it could be a portion
02:36they may, a dingo may walk past or a snake, they stop and they watch it so we listen to
02:43them.
02:43If there could be more understanding of nature, if people can just tune into the land and listen
02:50and feel and hear, everything is whole, everything touches, everything is connected. And we are
02:58only just one little part of that.
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