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Cultural Gathering/Workshop
Highlights
- Immerse yourself in the tranquil Tea Tree waters at Lennox Head, rejuvenating your spirit amidst sacred surroundings.
- Savour traditional bush tucker while sharing stories, deepening your connection to the Bundjalung Nation's rich heritage.
- Weave a basket from native resources, engaging hands-on with local culture and craftsmanship.
- Experience a cultural smoking ceremony, acknowledging the sacred connection to the waters that define this unique region.
This tour is stationary at Lennox Head NSW, just 15 minutes south of Byron Bay on our most sacred grounds. Aunty Lois is a Traditional Custodian of Ngangbul country in the Bundjalung Nation of Eastern Australia.
Treat yourself to a day of relaxation indulge yourself for the day, if you are looking to escape for the day by immersing themselves sitting at our Sacred Lake. Dive into our Tea Tree waters refresh and rebalance enjoy the experience.
The tour includes: Some bush tucker to share with you, you can also bring your favourite foods to share if you like, drinks available tea, coffee and water.
You will be taken back in time listening to dreamtime stories from the area and how important our sacred lake is. We will also be weaving a basket from native resources, a cultural smoking ceremony and acknowledging our sacred connection to the waters, and what makes our region so unique.
Itinerary highlights
Sacred Healing Lake at Lennox Head
This site is highly significant to the Bundjalung Nation as it is known as our healing lake mentioned in our complexed stories of the Beginning of our nation and the Three Brothers Story of their journey to our lands, the creation of our lore’s and customs and creation of our nation.
Lake Ainsworth was a significant Ceremonial sit and campsite for local Aboriginal People, it was used for gatherings, ceremonies and seasonal living place. The surrounding landscape include Bora Rings( traditional initiation grounds and other Aboriginal archaeological sites like middens and burial grounds.
The lake is featured in Aboriginal Dreaming Stories, including the ancestral figures (the Three Brothers) which underpins cultural beliefs, about the landscape and its connection to creation and ongoing spiritual presence.
Some accounts of oral history record some parts of the lake culturally set aside for women’s activities birthing and bathing practices in the waters therapeutic tea-tree waters. the lake reflects its role in community life and cultural rites.
Tour details
- On demand
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Service facilities
Service Tags
Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
Operation information
Aboriginal Cultural Concepts
Aboriginal Cultural Concepts is a rare tour experience that takes you along the Bundjalung Coast from Byron Bay to Ballina the most eastern point of Australia, during the tours participants will taste native foods, visit significant cultural sites along the coast and hear stories of our ancient past.
Aboriginal Cultural Concepts provides cultural experiences across various local areas, offering half-day, full-day, multi-day, and extended tours. Extended tours are designed to meet the customer or interest groups needs and expectations.
We promise you an unforgettable experience throughout this journey of traditions, culture, stories, visiting significant sites and heritage of Australia. On Ngangbul Country discover and ask questions and take photographs of a amazing and stunning landscape from coastal waters saltwater country to the rainforests. Uncover the hidden stories of the coast, land, people, and Dreaming sites.
Meet Traditional custodians and Elder Lois Cook, listen to her remarkable stories and histories of the area and homelands. A Welcome to Country at your Events including a Smoking Ceremonies connecting you to country spiritually and stories of the area. We also have a stationary event at Lennox Heads Lake Ainsworth where I will facilitate a workshops which include a Welcome, smoking ceremony storytelling and weaving and dance.
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- Outdoors NSW & ACT
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