Caring for Country: Restoring Land and Cultural Understanding

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To our valued guest and visitor, our Spring trip date is confirm as seen on the image advertisement, for further info don't hesitate to contact us. It is scheduled on 23 -26th of September 2009, 4 days and 3 nights.

The design of the poster is based on the shape of the Coorong Lagoon and all the photographs featured on the poster are taken from the Coorong. The colours are influence by the Coorong landscape itself. As you can see the Coorong is a wonderful place and offers many surprises. Who knows you will have a chance of seeing the rare and endangered bird species, the Orange Bellied Parrot (OBP)according to researchers its only 150 left on the wild and there's an urgent need to rescue this species before they disappeared, there was sighting of OBP's seen at the Coorong so join with us.

What you're waiting for, contact us and secure your place as we only offering limited places.
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Uncle Neville's tour

The following images are Uncle Neville's surprise tour around the camp site. He was telling us about the different bush tucker plants and the name of each plant and its uses. However, if you want to know more about the name of the plants, you have to join with us on our second trip which scheduled during Spring time (school break Term 3)

Uncle Neville

Uncle Neville and Joan Gibbs

Uncle Neville, Georgina Clark and Steve Gemmell

Uncle Neville, Jill Talbot and Georgina Clark


Our valuable guest star of the night Uncle Neville


Uncle Neville's suprise tour, his vast knowledge of the Coorong plants and his great singing that made the Caring for Country workshop unforgettable. Thank you very much Uncle Neville.

Posting and photographs by Jelina Haines 2009

Caring for Country: Restoring the Land and Cultural Understanding workshop

The following images were taken during our last workshop trip.


Joan was in-charge on the driving and Jill (front passenger)

First stop at Tailembend, re-fuel and had a break for a coffee then hit the road again. Second stop, Meningie on time for our lunch break, without realizing that I forgotten this delicious platters that I bought the day before (cursing myself for an hour), the funny thing was when i did the food shopping for this trip I ordered the platters the day before and arrived back home, realized I forgotten the platters, went back to the shop and the shop lady forgotten it too, so we wait till she finished preparing it. So, this delicious platter wasn't meant to be eaten for our trip and I think we meant to purchase our lunch at the Meningie Bakery, we made the owner happy though by buying our lunch in the bakery.

If you are thinking going to Meningie in South Australia don't forget to stop by at Meningie bakery.


Third stop at Camp Coorong, meeting Uncle Neville and introducing Jill to everybody.


At last we arrived at our destination at the Coorong Wilderness Lodge at Hacks Point, South Australia and we were greeted with this panoramic view of the peninsula.


Our first night camping


Our surprises just starting we had a surprise visit from Uncle Neville.

I will post some of the images later on, so keep visiting the CBRP blog.

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