Baniol Tours Mudnunn
Baniol Tours is a family based business located at Mudnunn Aboriginal Community. Baniol provides visitors with a unique opportunity to share an Indigenous lifestyle. This includes learning local history and heritage, learning about traditional hunting, collecting and survival skills and sharing stories of the relationship that Jawi and Bardi people share with the sea.
Mudnunn Aboriginal Community is located 230 kilometres north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsular. It is the home base for cultural excursions that include bush tucker walks, fishing, oyster collecting and mud crabbing in the nearby tidal creeks.
Mudnunn has a formal camping ground with 30 unpowered sites adjacent to the Mudnunn community. The camping ground caters to the fully independent traveller as well as organised groups.
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Bunjood Tours (fish poisoning)Bunjood is a certain root used to stun fish; it actually takes oxygen out of the water. You will be taken out to rock holes where you will be shown how to rub bunjood on rock mixed with sand, then put it in the water and wait for the fish to float then collect what fish you want. Those fish you don't want are placed back in the water where they will revive themselves and swim off. You will also be instructed on what types of fish are good eating fish and different ways to cook them. Bush Tucker TourThis tour takes you to local destinations where you are shown types of trees that are bush fruits, medicine trees and honey (bush) trees. You will be told about the different seasons and what type of tree is used to make spears, boomerangs and other Aboriginal artefacts and what trees are good for fire and which trees are in season to make seed necklaces and other jewellery. Mud Crab TourThis tour takes you to local destinations where you are shown how to catch mud crabs. You will also be told how and when the mud crabs breed and how to preserve them as well as how to limit the amount of intake of the mud crabs. You will be shown how to track a crab and how to only catch them in the mangroves and not out in the flat area, because of their feeding habitat. You are welcome to take your catch home and we can tell you the different ways of cooking them. Spear, Boomerang, Shield Making TourOn this tour you will be taken out to find the best tree to make spears and boomerangs. You will be shown what tools to use, how to straighten spears and how to make the boomerang hit the target and then come back. You will be shown how to carve the shield to make it strong and how to make the shape perfect. You can then take your product home. | |
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