NAIDOC week...

...is held in the first full week of July to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders culture, history and achievements and their contribution to country and society.
Celebrated in indigenous communities and by schools, local council and community organizations, our local shire has sponsored the Makuru Arts Festival including bush walks and bush tucker, music and art with the Makuru theme.
This HUGE nest, modelled along the lines of a Magpie or perhaps Raven's nest is one of several sculptures made from flora and fauna (in the form of bones) collected along the Bibbulmun Track the Northern terminus of which is in Kalamunda.

Imagine the size of the bird to say nothing of the eggs!

Makuru is one of six Aboriginal seasons...'pronounced Mug-a-roo is the June/July Nyoongar winter season. Nyoongar people would return to inland hunting areas to prepare their camping grounds for the next season of Djilba, for the heavy rains and cold nights when witchetty grubs were in abundance. The Nyoongars would stock up on fire tools and bush medicines”.