Most Australian holidaymakers could name at least one theme park on the Gold Coast but few know the region’s oldest creation stories.
Its beaches are world-renowned, while its nightlife, glitzy malls and theme parks attract huge numbers of visitors, with good reason.In a green refuge amid the Gold Coast skyscrapers there’s a landmark that predates the resorts and theme parks. Composed of basalt and littoral rainforest, the viridescent hump of Burleigh Head/Jellurgal protrudes out into the sea, squeezed corpulent between the northern surf breaks and Tallebudgera Creek.
“Look, can you see the fingers?” First Nations guide Jason Passfield asks, as we stand at the tip of the headland, gazing up at a knot of rocks teetering above a carpet of quivering grass. Poking out from the craggy knuckle, a cylindrical rock points – canon like – out across the ocean. This, Passfield explains, is the index finger of Jabreen, the giant, long-haired creation spirit who rests here.A sea eagle wheels overhead as Passfield details how Jabreen created the mountain we stand upon.
Most sun-seeking Australian holidaymakers could name at least one theme park on the Gold Coast. And all could identify the high rise-hemmed curves of Surfers Paradise, but few know the region’s oldest creation stories and their significance to the Yugambeh People.At Jellurgal Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Traditional Owners are quietly sharing their culture and stories and connecting visitors to Country, in a destination not renowned for Indigenous tourism.
All proceeds from Jellurgal Walkabout tours go towards funding health and community programs at Kalwun. The tours start at the base of Jellurgal – under the eye of another, distant Dreaming mountain, Wollumbin .Inside the reserve , we stop at an embankment flecked with shells. Carbon dated at 4000 to 5000 years old, the midden is a window into a culture of subsistence living that thrived here for millennia.
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