#kulin nations

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Never too old for discovery.

I visited Queenscliff, without catching whatever lergy was hanging around Geelong.

Queenscliff is a town at the western entrance of Port Phillip Bay. Port Nepean is the eastern side. The entrance is notorious for shipwrecks and is fittingly named “The Rip”. Today, I found out why.

Port Phillip Bay was actually swamp land in the distant past. Like the Ice Age distant past. The main river, the Yarra, flowed all of the way to the Rip. And that river bed is still there.

The 3D topographical map at the Queenscliff Maritime Museum looks like someone had gouged their finger through it. It is a very deep channel and is said to have an underwater waterfall. The Rip is 3.5 kilometres wide but navigable part is a mere 800 metres.

This is part of the Kulin nation. And the last Ice Age was an era of tremendous disruption and discovery for many Indigenous communities. The Boonwurrung people of the east, and the Wathurung people of the west no doubt have significant song lines of the development of the Yarra and the Bay.

Incredible stuff.