Badger Galore
Staying ‘Up Over’ for a while.
Down and up again.
So... today was our last full day in the Blue Mountains. Will, Tracy, Rochelle and I went on a walk down into the National Park. We went down the Giant Staircase by the Three Sisters, along Federal Pass and back up the Furber Steps. A fabulous view heavy post follows...
A Symposium...and more lookouts!
So... today there was a symposium at the gallery where many of the artists spoke about their work. Tracy, Rochelle and Will spoke in the afternoon and then we left the gallery for the last time this trip.
Phoebe and Deranie came up from Canberra for the exhibition and yesterday and today we explored some of the lookouts to the east of The Three Sisters. It's just stunning here.
Water: presence and absence.
So... tonight was the opening of the exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. It was very well attended. There were opening speeches and a Dharug and Gundungurra smoking ceremony. There were two exhibitions opening: the first, Lost Song, an exhibition about the endangered Regent Honeyeater. There are now not enough mature male birds left to teach the younger males the mating call and their song is dying out. The second opening was the exhibition on Water that Rochelle, Tracy and Will have contributed to.
The Mountain Orange Gum grows at Frogknot, the Water Gum near Rochelle's home and the Grey Mangrove at Tracy's. All three trees grow in the catchment area of the Clarence River. Rochelle did all the paintings, Tracy did the metal work and Will made sound recordings at the locations of all the trees and in different locations along the Clarence River from its source to the ocean.