Busy Bees

21/10/2024

We read about Brian the smelly bear then created out our nature art version of smelly brian and clean Brian. They boys helped decide how to give him colour and fur 😍

27/09/2024

Today we made potions with bi carb soda, vinegar, water and colours. We experimented with natural colours using mulberries and beetroot. We then made our own paint and created some really cool pictures 😍 so much fun 👌🏽

22/03/2023

12/03/2023

Tawny frog mouth Owl 🦉 hoot hoot! Saw 2 in 2 very different places on the same day! How camouflaged are they… I nearly walked past both of them 🤪

12/03/2023

Flowering beauties 🤩🌺🤩🌱🤩🌷

10/03/2023

How cool is this! Green water in the vase is changing the colours of the flowers! This is after only 24 hours 🤩👌🏽

09/03/2023

Rainy Day Nature walks! The blue dragonflies were dancing and hard to capture 🧚🏼‍♂️🦋🧚🏼‍♂️ So much wildlife about, vibrant colours and lots of creative inspiration… even with the grey skies 🤩👌🏽

07/03/2023

Some cute little pots I’ve planted out and hanging plants I’ve created - some gifted, some to close to my heart to get rid of just yet! 😆😜🌸🌿🌺🌱 Which is your favourite ??

07/03/2023

Sunflowers are such a beauty of nature! 🌻 This is a farm I visited with my children a few years back south of cairns! Today working at kindy (with 4 year olds) the children were studying a fresh bunch of sunflowers and a van Gough painting called ‘Sunflowers’ and recreated their own stunning works of art! Love the perception of a child 👧🏼 👦 🪴 🌻

06/03/2023

The history of the place a lot of us call home ❤️

It is said that Tibrogargan, the father, and Beerwah, the mother, had many children. Coonowrin the eldest, Beerburrum, the Tunbubudla twins, the Coochin twins, Ngungun, Tibberoowuccum, Miketebumulgrai, and Saddleback. There was Round who was fat and small and Wildhorse who was always paddling in the sea.
One day, Tibrogargan was gazing out to sea and noticed a great rising of the waters. Hurrying off to gather his younger children, in order to flee to the safety of the mountains in the west, he called out to Coonowrin to help his mother Beerwah, who was again with child.
Looking back to see how Coonowrin was assisting Beerwah, Tibrogargan was greatly angered to see him running off alone. He pursued Coonowrin and, raising his club, struck the latter such a mighty blow that it dislodged Coonowrin’s neck, and he has never been able to straighten it since.
When the floods had subsided and the family returned to the plains, the other children teased Coonowrin about his crooked neck. Feeling ashamed, Coonowrin went over to Tibrogargan and asked for his forgiveness, but filled with shame at his son’s cowardice, Tibrogargan could do nothing but weep copious tears, which, trickling along the ground, formed a stream that flowed into the sea. Then Coonowrin went to his brothers and sisters, but they also wept at the shame of their brother’s cowardice. The lamentations of Coonowrin’s parents and of his brothers and sisters at his disgrace explain the presence of the numerous small streams of the area.
Tibrogargan then called to Coonowrin, asking him why he had deserted his mother. Coonowrin replied that as Beerwah was the biggest of them all she should be able to take care of herself. He did not know that she was again pregnant, which was the reason for her great size. Then Tibrogargan turned his back on his son and vowed that he would never look at him again.
Even today Tibrogargan gazes far out to sea and never looks around at Coonowrin, who hangs his head and cries, his tears running off to the sea. His mother Beerwah is still heavy with child, as it takes a long, long time to give birth to a mountain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNL0BAFV6M
By the late Ivan Northgate. RIP Ivan.
Ivan did the Glasshouse Mountains proud with all his research, knowledge, and commitment to his book "The National Heritage Listed Glasshouse Mountains"
The book is available from The Glasshouse Mountains Visitor and Interpretive Centre, located in Settlers Rotary Park on the corner of Bruce Parade and Steve Irwin Way in the Glasshouse Mountains.

Traditional land
These mountains and the surrounding plains are the ancestral home of the Jinibara and Kabi Kabi peoples, the Traditional Owners of this area.

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