“There were 3 brothers who lived near the Camden Haven River near the sea. As part of their initiation, they were required to live alone in the bush for several months before they would be recognised as fully initiated. After being in the bush for several months they began to worry about their mother and father, so the youngest brother volunteered to go and check up on them. Just as he left the camp he saw an old witch but paid her no attention. He told his parents about her when he reached them, and his father gave him a special boomerang, and told him to quickly return to his brother’s camp to warn them that the witch would try to kill them. The youngest brother headed back to his brother’s camp but did not make it there by night fall, at first light he continued his journey but the witch was at the camp when he arrived. He asked the witch what she had done to his two brothers, and she replied that she had eaten them and would eat him too. Before the witch had a chance to do anything, the youngest brother hit her on the head with the boomerang and split her in half. He buried half her body in the river and half in the sea. Then returned to his brother’s camp and gathered up their bones. He buried their bones where the North and Middle Brother mountains now stand, then went to where the South Brother mountain now stands and died. That night a mountain rose up where each body lay to mark the tragedy. The mountains were then named after the Three Brothers.”

I love these dreamtime stories, its a real shame there is not a proper recording of these which is easily accessible…

More importantly though, i wanna know what the local aboriginal people did about the fing mozzies, we need some stories about these little buggers cause a thousand bites from them is worse than being eaten by any witch called Widjirriejuggi 🙂

Given we have chopped down half the bush up here and covered it with houses the number of mozzies back then would have been 2 fold 🙂 In all seriousness, i do wonder what this place would have looked like before we (white settlers/invaders < insert your choice of phrase here>) came here…