Aboriginal shore
This shore and the surrounding hills have a long history of human occupation.
This area was once hills above the Bassian Plain that connected Tasmania to the mainland. It is over these hills that the first occupants came, travelling southward over 35,000 years ago.
The richness of the area’s resources is shown by the vast cave middens, left by Aboriginal occupation, revealing continuous occupation through the accumulated materials over 8,000 year period. These are one of the largest and most complete records of the lifestyle of coastal Aboriginal people anywhere in Australia.
This land has a good feeling.
Walking along the shore, and later, through the night, walking over the hills, I was reminded of Seth Kantner's thoughts about arctic Alaska:
"We spot no tusks curved like wrecked ship's ribs. There is no shore, no beach with huge Flintstone bones lying about. There is no disappointment either. Being here outshines taking something from here. This I think we humans forget. In our first few million years we learned nothing about how not to hunger. We have no clue how not to take."
~ from Shopping For Porcupine.
Nikkon D700, Nikkor 17-35mm @ 17 mm,
1/4 s @ f/14, ISO 100
Singh Ray 2 stop hard GND.
Aboriginal shore
This shore and the surrounding hills have a long history of human occupation.
This area was once hills above the Bassian Plain that connected Tasmania to the mainland. It is over these hills that the first occupants came, travelling southward over 35,000 years ago.
The richness of the area’s resources is shown by the vast cave middens, left by Aboriginal occupation, revealing continuous occupation through the accumulated materials over 8,000 year period. These are one of the largest and most complete records of the lifestyle of coastal Aboriginal people anywhere in Australia.
This land has a good feeling.
Walking along the shore, and later, through the night, walking over the hills, I was reminded of Seth Kantner's thoughts about arctic Alaska:
"We spot no tusks curved like wrecked ship's ribs. There is no shore, no beach with huge Flintstone bones lying about. There is no disappointment either. Being here outshines taking something from here. This I think we humans forget. In our first few million years we learned nothing about how not to hunger. We have no clue how not to take."
~ from Shopping For Porcupine.
Nikkon D700, Nikkor 17-35mm @ 17 mm,
1/4 s @ f/14, ISO 100
Singh Ray 2 stop hard GND.