Painting
Thursday 14th May - Daintree
Jamilah: Today we got up and met our guide Juan and he took us on a walk in the rainforest. The first thing we saw was a golden orb weaver spider and she was huge. There were tiny little boyfriend spiders and apparently they More...
Thursday 14th May - Daintree
Jamilah: Today we got up and met our guide Juan and he took us on a walk in the rainforest. The first thing we saw was a golden orb weaver spider and she was huge. There were tiny little boyfriend spiders and apparently they mate with her and she eats them. Our guide showed us lots of different plants - some were poisonous and some weren’t. There was even one like stinging nettles but three times as bad - out guide said he got stung by one and it lasted for two months! We got to a little waterfall where ladies used to wash themselves and Daddy and Juan our guide had to stay on the little wooden platform because it was a women’s place. Mummy and I went to the waterfall and Mummy stuck her hand in the water to see how cold it was - in fact it was quite cold. I went down to the little wooden platform with Mummy and Juan showed us lots of different rocks that if you put them in the water and rubbed them on a big rock would come out in all different colours depending on which different minerals the rocks had in them. I dipped my finger in each pool of colour on the rock and wiped it across my arm - I ended up with lots of different coloured stripes all up my arm. Juan painted my face for me with them and the pattern which he painted was like a yellowy cream rainbow on my forehead which were rain clouds, then he painted little blue-grey blobs on my cheeks to represent the rain, and then he painted a stick man in red through the centre of my face; the stick man didn’t have head because he was the rain man and the rain man is so tall that his head is hidden in the clouds.
This afternoon Mummy and I met Juan at the restaurant to do some Aboriginal paintings. I did a story painting of an endangered turtle and that the rainbow serpent, that created the world. His people killed the last one of the endangered turtle and he punished them by punishing four very important women. He called the rain man to make a big flood and two of the women drowned, but the other two women had wings and flew above the clouds; they all had digging sticks. Juan drew me a silhouette of an Emu and I drew the background and its eyes.
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