Spending time with my family I had many nights sitting around the campfire where stories were told. Our family lived on the opal field in Lightning Ridge in NSW and there is a dreaming that relates to the opal and the crocodile. During the Dreamtime Baiame (Spirit Father) and his two wives were travelling.The two wives went for a swim in a spring, not knowing that Gurria, the crocodile was following them.
Gurria was in love with the two and wanted their spirits. He swallowed both women and swam down the Narran River where he hide from Baiame. Baiame tracked Gurria to where he was hiding in a lake and speared him at Weetalibah water crossing. It is said that as Gurria was dying a shower of rain fell and a rainbow appeared. The colours of the rainbow were trapped in the scales of the dying crocodile, which is how Opal came to be.
Arkeria Rose Armstrong, a vibrant young female Gamilaraay artist, was born in a small town in South Australia called Ceduna in 1988 to Stephanie and Robert Armstrong.
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Spending time with my family I had many nights sitting around the campfire where stories were told. Our family lived on the opal field in Lightning Ridge in NSW and there is a dreaming that relates to the opal and the crocodile. During the Dreamtime Baiame (Spirit Father) and his two wives were travelling.The two wives went for a swim in a spring, not knowing that Gurria, the crocodile was following them.
Gurria was in love with the two and wanted their spirits. He swallowed both women and swam down the Narran River where he hide from Baiame. Baiame tracked Gurria to where he was hiding in a lake and speared him at Weetalibah water crossing. It is said that as Gurria was dying a shower of rain fell and a rainbow appeared. The colours of the rainbow were trapped in the scales of the dying crocodile, which is how Opal came to be.
Arkeria Rose Armstrong, a vibrant young female Gamilaraay artist, was born in a small town in South Australia called Ceduna in 1988 to Stephanie and Robert Armstrong.
Spending time with my family I had many nights sitting around the campfire where stories were told. Our family lived on the opal field in Lightning Ridge in NSW and there is a dreaming that relates to the opal and the crocodile. During the Dreamtime Baiame (Spirit Father) and his two wives were travelling.The two wives went for a swim in a spring, not knowing that Gurria, the crocodile was following them.
Gurria was in love with the two and wanted their spirits. He swallowed both women and swam down the Narran River where he hide from Baiame. Baiame tracked Gurria to where he was hiding in a lake and speared him at Weetalibah water crossing. It is said that as Gurria was dying a shower of rain fell and a rainbow appeared. The colours of the rainbow were trapped in the scales of the dying crocodile, which is how Opal came to be.
Arkeria Rose Armstrong, a vibrant young female Gamilaraay artist, was born in a small town in South Australia called Ceduna in 1988 to Stephanie and Robert Armstrong.
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