Aboriginal Catch and Cook TROPICAL RAINFOREST FOOD | Australia
A rare insight into an amazing community of people. This stretch of coastline dense in rainforest was home to only Gungganyji and Yidinyji people prior to Colonisation. It is now home to so many more.
Yarrabah once an aboriginal mission is now home to people whos ancestors were brought here against their will so many years ago. That dark period still hangs over the community today as it does all communities Iv spent time in but on the surface you wouldnt know it. These amazing people are still doing the best they can to hold onto a traditional way of life and that in part is why I was invited in. For a rare catch and cook and to witness life here.
I want to thank everyone in Yarrabah for making me feel so welcome and allowing me to come in and document life in your home. I really want to thank everyone (you know who you are) that took me out on country, showing me around, hunting, teaching me so much, spending time and sharing meals.
Thankyou to Josh, James, Goof, Lanita and family for helping me with pronunciation of language.
Stories and information in this episode came from some amazing books and sites listed below:
Reflections in Yarrabah by Kathleen Denigan
Cairns city of the South Pacific, A history 1770 - 1995
Trove.nla.gov.au
Dance and ceremony footage was from a friend at Integrated Media. These dancers I believe are tribes in the Pormpuraaw region, not Gungganyji or Yidinyji. This was filmed at the Laura Quinkan Dance Festival.
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Awesome insight to a community so close to home Nath, keep doing the great work you're doing opening up the history of australia and showing others the wonders of our country
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
🙏🏼 thanks for that feedback, nice to hear🤙🏼
Hey Nath can I just say that this episode was next level. This season is going to be awesome can not wait!
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Hamish, bit of fishing in there for ya mate
This was awesome i am so glad you’re back with a new season and more knowledge!! Also something that i loved to see was the kids in the bush bare foot, it is the best way to connect with the land and heal your spirit
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
I agree about being barefoot mate 💯. Thanks for watching Patrick 🤙🏼
Thanks for sharing mate. Love the insight into the community. Always a joy to watch
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome Ben
I grew up with the Kuku Yalangi bama on the Bloomfield back in the 70s..this video sure brings back a lot of memories. Thanks.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that wouldve been amazing!
Best and saddest video yet,thank you for doing what you do!
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
I’m glad you felt it Tim and still enjoyed it.
living the dream mate ,love it
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Haha I sure am. I love it
Another awesome vid nate thanks and just wondering did you get to try the echidna ?
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Hey Haz, thanks mate. No I didnt, young Clifton took that one home to cook
What an amazing setting and ecosystem to fish and explore. It's like a dream. How bad are the mosquitoes?
Thank you for your videos teaching the history and suffering of the Aboriginal people
Smashed another episode out of the park mate. Great job. Really liked the narrating of the story at the beginning too. Excellent background music throughout👍
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
That’s good to hear, I wanted to try something different there. 👌🏼
Great episode, Mate for the first. Of the new season.👍👍
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nevan 🤙🏼
Amazing!!!!...Hats of to you for always keeping us entertained and bringing so much information.....Stay safe ♥♥
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jill, I will 👍🏼
Deadly video mate, is there a part 2 of this?
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Thanks mate
Hello Nath great to have you back, this was very enjoyable we would love to had that walk with you guys. Going back to Capt. Cook that is the kind of welcome we get from the neighbour, he must see us as the ghost of his ancestor's 🙄. I think you've nailed it mate....Looking forward to next weeks already, we are just off to shoot some pigeon!!☺. Take care The Wild Screechers. Hello Mel👍.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Haha that poor neighbour of yours! Thanks as always for being here for the journey Wild Screechers, love your feedback
Great video again Nate… awesome content with great history…🤙🤙
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kim 🙏🏼
The little one with the arm cast is doing a great job
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
So good hey, young Buddy had a broken arm
Thank you Nathan, bring so many feelings this one? You are a treasure and proved yourself to mob, much respect fella, thank you
Excellent first episode ,as usual. Cant wait for the rest of the series. Informative and entertaining.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Flathead 🤙🏼
Wow Man, your episodes just keep getting better and better, loved this insight, felt like l was there for sure, just bought some merch to say thank you
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Yesss! I want everyone to feel like they’re walking along with me. Thanks for buying merch mate.
Cheers Nathan very well done appreciate all your work 🤙
Yes!!! love this region!!!
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful isn’t it.
Duuuude,,! So awesome a spot, I’ve been to Yarrabah a few times but never experienced that kind of thing, glad we are back to normal programming legend man, life as we all know it can resume. Mate your editing skills and cinematography is something you should be truly proud of, getting better and better with each season, I know how painstakingly you do it and it absolutely shows. I love your interactions with the people and the trust they put in you. Thanks so much Nath, bloody awesome. But most importantly what was that topwater lure you guys caught the JP’s on, you know me, I need at least 4 of the bloody things now…. 😂😂
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Haha I’ll have to check with Josh on that lure. Thanks mate, I love reading your comments, very inspiring. Hope you’re well down there in the cold mate, atleast you have weekly episodes to look forward to again. 👍🏼
thank you, nate. important knowlege. beautiful storytelling❣
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
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An educational adventure i would love to go on , thank you for every video you make ❤ much respect from South Africa
Best episode to date. Live in the area, had no real idea of any of the history. Keep it up.
Beginning was a nice touch to your videos mate, really enjoyed that
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks mate. 👍🏼
Crazyyyyy didn’t know these pigeons just chilling having 30 berries shoved down their throat. Thanks for the knowledge
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Pretty amazing hey, such a large fruit too
another sick vid cant wait for the rest of them man. im from cairns and i havent seen that part of yarrabah but the rainforest and diversity of animals and plants is amazing. when was this recorded and what was the species of tree you used for the spears, have a good one mate
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
The boys call it woodjigy but I’m not sure if it’s actual species name. Glad you enjoyed the episode Ash, such beautiful country through there
Love your content mate
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
good to hear, thanks for watching
Awesome mate. I used to do a bit of work in Yarrabah and have always wanted to get over into the back of those mountains where you guys were for a look around. But obviously being aboriginal country I never bothered.
Horrific past times.. Always was Always will be
Deadly 1 nath ❤️privileged to watch this love the story at the start something diffrent to the cape episodes 💙safe travels brother love and respect mate
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Aye thanks Aidan, glad you enjoyed that story mate, working on next weeks ep now
@aidanwesley7605
Жыл бұрын
@@WildReaches can’t wait mate 💙
Very very cheeky boy
I got a 5am start, was meant to be in bed 45 minutes ago then i accidentally clicked this video. Worth every minute mate, can't wait to get stuck into all your others! Moving up fnq way at xmas and cant wait to get a JP one day! Bonus points if you can tell me what that cheeky little surface walking lure was.
Yes, waiting for season 8! So happy for this vid Nathan! But, my question is , how you fellas not get lost? No GPS nothin? How do you do it? I’m mob and even I get worried to go extreme country
Sick vid mate 🤙
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Nate 👍🏼
Hi Nate. Not too many countries can boast that they treated first peoples fairly. It’s a pretty sad legacy of the human condition in our collective history.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Yep that’s for sure
This is my first video that I watch from you and thank you for the insight from this video. So sad tho for the history what the Aborigines went through. No one should went through that especially in the name of any religion. It's not Christ like if you think about it. People has ruined the concept of many religions. The ones that has faith in God should be more humble and should not want power. Thank you for sharing this video.
Times change, environments change, hopefully more insight, next episode shows some endangered Dugong and Turtle being hunted with white man tools
Close to home ❤
This looks so fun mate, how did they traditionally catch these things?
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure. I’d guess boomerangs / throwing sticks and nets. Nets were made traditionally using fibres. Would’ve been a challenge with a spear
Too deadly champ 👍👍
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
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Mate what was that lure! Have been tryi g for so long to land a jungle perch! Great episode mate loved it!
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
I’d have to ask Josh, that was his. Any surface cicada style lure would work if you’re in the right water 👍🏼
@jrusso96
Жыл бұрын
@@WildReaches legend! I’ll be down at BCF this arvo!
I could live there God bless.
Nathan love your vids cheers wow old mates brothers that mob white guys whiter than me ah mu
What is this top water lure you are using in the video? Love the design with the wings !
@WildReaches
11 ай бұрын
I’ll have to ask Josh mate, that was his set up we were using
This was brilliant. When I was at school they never taught any of the local atrocities that happened to the first peoples. Most we did was watch rabbit proof fence, but talking about the local mass graves never happened. Especially where I was from was full of squatter families who would get really butthurt if you even brought it up. Get called a bleeding heart and accused of trying to make them feel guilty for stuff their relatives did when it's really about respect and acknowledging people's experiences and history. The paranoia that they are simply being guilt-tripped is just disrespectful self-centered rubbish... And then of course they accuse everyone else of being overly sensitive.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Spot on mate, it’s about acknowledgement, open conversations and moving forward together. I think, from reading my comments, alot of people hold that
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Attitude of being disrespectful and rude because they feel they’re being guilt tripped. It’s nothing about being made to feel guilty, so far from it
Hectic yowie country
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Haha yep, wouldn’t catch me out there alone at night
Should've put the rice in with the birds,that how we cook our fruit pigeons on my island.
@WildReaches
9 ай бұрын
Nice, so it soaks in all the goodness as it cooks?
Ooooo Sundays not Fridays now
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Yeah mate 👍🏼
I’m not sure if hearing it right, but is the bird name “condom”??
@0doggod0
Жыл бұрын
'quandong' - is the fruit that the bird was eating
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Don’t know how to spell it but bawoulick. It’s a Wompoo dove
Bo
Traditional owners should use traditional methods or have to stick to the same rules we all have to abide by I’m sorry but this just makes a mockery of guardianship of the land
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Hey Mark, interesting point mate. Remember it’s not First Nations people who make these fisheries and hunting rules, it’s Australia’s government. What people don’t get to see is the management of resources that each tribe has for their own country, Land and Sea. These are ancient practices that go hand in hand with their spiritual beliefs. Iv touched on on it a bit this series so hopefully you get to hear a bit of that from the elders. Yes they are using boats these days and modern weapons from time to time but their own “quota” for lack of a better term is still upheld (most of the time in the regions iv visited) by the wider community.
@nzmarkb8713
Жыл бұрын
@@WildReaches yes I agree with you totally, I’m a firm believer in only taking what you need. Unfortunately not everyone follows this simple rule and spoil it for everyone Thanks for your reply 👍
@GrowbaG2381
Жыл бұрын
@@nzmarkb8713 I'm white Australian and it's us who makes a mockery of the land starting 200 year's ago
Shooting rifles with no safe backstop.................. 🤪👎
@GrowbaG2381
Жыл бұрын
It's a 22 hahahaha 🤣
Sad reading the comments racist much or absolutely clueless
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Just uneducated. That’s why I think these adventures and conversations are so important.
The stick clapping at the beginning was so repetitive it was almost unbearable.
@WildReaches
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback
@christianhendry7136
11 ай бұрын
I respectfully disagree. Clapping sticks traditionally are an integral part of storytelling and ceremony. I felt it enhanced the intro to this video.
@Epiccurios
11 ай бұрын
@@christianhendry7136 I’ve listened to plenty of stick clapping. I’ve been to many ceremonies and enjoy them thoroughly. I also enjoy this video, but it was just too much for me. Im glad you enjoyed it.
@lukesticklen6955
11 ай бұрын
I thought it was very fitting and enjoyed the informative narration over it.
@nelimanneliman4410
11 ай бұрын
Change the channel then
Absolutely disgusting to kill an echidna
@rayshonlenoy6048
21 күн бұрын
Yea whatever loser ✌🏾