Day 6: Today we rode the Kuranda scenic railway up thru the rainforest to the Kuranda Village. It was a fun train ride, with beautiful scenery and along the way they told the story of how Kuranda came about. We shopped around the village and ate lunch. After a few hours at Kuranda we rode the sky rail back above the rainforest. There were huge waterfalls that we got to see and all different kind of birds. It was so cool to be so high and look down on all the trees and rivers, and wildlife.
After the sky rail we went to meet the Aboriginals. We watched a traditional aboriginal dance where they made a fire from rubbing 2 sticks together. They played the dijeridoo and these other instruments that were all made out of wood. Next an aboriginal gave us a performance and taught us a lesson on how to play the digeridoo, and later got to give it a go. They are really hard to play! Than a female aboriginal came and explained to us how they used natural resources to their advantage. She talked about how to make instrument, what foods you an eat in the wild, what they used for medicine, and some remedies they have for different sicknesses. We also learned how they made boomerangs, what makes them come back to you, and also got to throw them! Mine went far, but only came half way back to me… I’ll have to keep practicing. There was a little boy there helping us throw the boomerangs and taught us how to throw a spear. His name was Dane, and couldn’t have been older than 7. He could throw the spear so far and aim it right where he wanted! It was neat learning about the lifestyles of traditional aboriginal people because today they have the reputation of being drug addicts and alcoholics.
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