Position 19 38.82 S 134 11.96E

Stayed in the Outback Caravan Park.  Visited the Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre which has won tourism prizes.  Not much art on display. $12.50 to view museum which had some nice displays of aboriginal artefacts.  Price included audio headphones.  Only problem with that was that none of them were fully charged up and Paul and I ended up having to share one and nearly garrotting each other with the headphone wires.  They had a landscaped garden of indigenous plants – a couple of which were dead!  This is called the bush coconut and is wasp gall and I think you can eat it.

Learnt that aboriginals have what they call skin names.  Males all have surname beginning with N and females with an M.  There are then 16 different male surnames and 16 female surnames.  When a baby is born it is given a skin name which tells everyone who it is related to, what skin names it can marry, what responsibilities it has in ceremonies, what stories it ‘inherits’ to tell.  I’m not sure if the skin name is the same as one of the parents or different.