![]() The dome mountain is its forehead and the lava spat through the earth its teeth. It is said that after passing over the land, an ancestral being known as Budj Bim (‘Big Head’) transformed itself into the landscape. ![]() They gave the wetlands and the food enriched landscape that enabled survival. They diverted the waterways and gave the stones and rocks to help build the aquaculture system. In the Dreaming of the Gunditjmara people, it is said that ancestral beings gave the landscape its features, providing the people with the resources to live a settled lifestyle. It is part of a portfolio of Australian Outback tours offered by Odyssey for like-minded people who are curious about Outback Australia. Travellers gain an insight into Aboriginal habitation and land management dating back 120,000 years in Australia and then more recently the veneer of European settlement in the last two centuries on the landscape. This is a journey of learning around the Southern edges of the Murray Darling basin and up to the upper southern part of this complex river basin north of Mildura. It is intended to assist your day tour of Budj Bim as part of Odyssey Traveller’s Tour of the Southern States of Australia. Much of the information from this article is sourced from The People of Budj Bim by the Gunditjmara people and Gib Wettenhall. As such, the eel traps have in recent years become an Australian UNESCO World Heritage site, the only one listed exclusively for its Aboriginal cultural values. This consists of multiple locations such as Lake Condah, Muldoon’s Trap Complex and the Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area. Evidence of this society, including the fish traps as well as stone houses, can be seen across the Budj Bim cultural landscape today. This practice ensured ample supplies of food year-round allowing the Gunditjmara, who were primarily nomadic, to develop into a settled society living permanently off the land. Drawing upon deep knowledge of water cycles and migration routes, they created and manipulated landscape over a 100 square kilometre area to divert water flow and trap, grow and harvest eels and galaxia fish. Over thousands of years the Gunditjmara people of southwestern Victoria, Australia, used volcanic rock created by the Budj Bim lava flow to construct a sophisticated stone aquaculture complex of fish traps, weirs, dams, and channels.
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