Official blog of the Boyagin Rock Dreamtime Walk Trail Project 2013. This project is a community project with the purpose of developing a Dreamtime Walk Trail around the base of Boyagin Rock, a place of significant cultural and heritage value to the Aboriginal Noongar people. Boyagin Rock is located in the Shire of Pingelly Western Australia.
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
BOODJIN - The Boyagin Rock Storybook Released.
Wednesday 16th September 2015 saw the official release of the long awaited BOODJIN Storybook. the link to the Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management web site is here. A PDF version of this publication can be found on the NRM web page.
Some of the many who came to celebrate the release of the storybook
The release of the publication marks a major milestone for the Noongar peoples and forms part of the long term strategy established by the Pingelly Tourism Group Inc. Boyagin Rock Working Committee to promote Boodjin and the surrounding area as a site of cultural significance and a place which should be protected and respected by visitors to the area.
The launch itself was something very special and the NRM article here describes the celebration in good detail.
Elders Merv Abraham, Nora Bennell and Janet Hayden show off the Storybook
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