Lurujarri Heritage Trail

The Lurujarri Heritage Trail was made possible by its Guardian Paddy Roe OAM, who as its Custodians would like to share this living walking and foraging trail, and by its Guardian Spirits of the JabirrJabirr, Djugun and Ngumbal peoples.

Lurujarri Heritage Trail follows a song cycle which originated from the Dreamtime Ancestral Beings believed to have created the landscape, humans, animals and plants, all of which are inter-connected by the same life spirit. Lurujarri, meaning coastal dunes, is the Aboriginal name which generally describes this stretch of country, while the red pindan cliffs are known as Yanijarri. Since Aboriginal Law originated from the north, the trail follows the coast from Manari (Coulomb Point) to Minyirr (Gantheaume Point), a distance of about 72km. The walk passes through old Aboriginal camping grounds, unmarked burial places, former water soaks, renowned 130,000,000-million-year-old dinosaur footprints and a variety of seasonal sea and bush foods.

The time we walk is likely to fall within the season of Barrgana - the dry time, SE wind time. Nights are characteristically cool with sea mist coming inland, while days, on average, reach around 30 degrees Celsius. We will be walking on beach, reef and dunes, through bush, mangroves, and salt plains. 

By walking along this age-old trail, you are sharing in the Dreaming, an ongoing state which draws together past, present and future. For at least the 6,000 years that the coastline has been at the level it is today Aborigines have walked, foraged and camped at the places featured on the trail.