The Fruit Picker by Bea Eschen

Author:Bea Eschen [Eschen, Bea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Isolated raindrops were falling heavily in anticipation of the approaching storm. The rain season was under way and electric thunderstorms happened almost daily. Soon tropical monsoons would bring regular heavy downpours causing low-lying areas to flood. For Yolngu, who called the rain season barramirri, it meant that plant life flourished and all things grew. They collected wild plums, bush apples, beans and ice plant. Fish, shellfish and crabs in the coastal regions became a staple diet. Kangaroos and wallabies gave birth, and as well as their milk the joeys fed on the first yellow shoots that cracked the earth and turned green. The humidity was high and the temperature consistently around thirty-three degrees.

They reached the camp just in time before the rain started. Tjandamurra told Sebastian to wait out the storm in his hut, and with those words he disappeared into the cave of the banyan.

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