{"id":2672,"date":"2011-07-13T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:09:35","slug":"student-perspective-hiking-and-learning-aboriginal-culture-at-carnarvon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-hiking-and-learning-aboriginal-culture-at-carnarvon\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Hiking and learning Aboriginal culture at Carnarvon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrienne Wilson, 2011 South Queensland<\/a> student blogger, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

June 7<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So we\u2019re at Carnarvon Gorge (pronounced \u201cka-naav-en\u201d) and had just spent our first night in really comfy cabins. I heard it was going to be cold, but the weather is actually really nice. In any case, this morning I woke u\"\"<\/a>p early and helped make breakfast! It was pretty awesome. I cooked eggs for everyone. : )<\/p>\n

Our main activity today was to learn to innovate as the Aboriginals did. Our field guide, Simon, split us into two teams and challenged us to make a water basket, a boomerang, and a rope cutting utensil with the natural materials found in a designated area for a prize (Tim Tams).<\/p>\n

My team totally won, by the way. But in Aboriginal culture, the winners get served last. So that was cool.<\/p>\n

We also went on this jaw-dropping amazing hike through Warrumba Creek Gorge and Mickey Creek Gorge. Here are some pictures! \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

June 8 \u2013 June 9<\/p>\n

We spent the last two days going on a lot of scenic hikes and learning about the Gorge\u2019s unique geology history and Aboriginal culture. We also saw a snake!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know: the Aboriginal people of Australia used handprints and engravings of vulvas to keep track of births as they migrated through the Gorge? We saw a lot of these paintings at the Art Gallery area, pictured below.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, we had kangaroo as part of dinner one night\u2026who knew that kangaroo actually tastes pretty good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrienne Wilson, 2011 South Queensland student blogger, writes: June 7 So we\u2019re at Carnarvon Gorge (pronounced \u201cka-naav-en\u201d) and had just spent our first night in really comfy cabins. I heard it was going to be cold, but the weather is actually really nice. In any case, this morning I woke up early and helped make breakfast! It was pretty awesome….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-australia-south-queensland","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}