- Placename
- Kaarta Garup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.961111 Longitude115.841389 Start Date End Date
Description
It was still uncertain who would become the carers of everything. Jindalee was looking out from Kaarta Garup (head camp) on Mount Eliza, Kings Park, and saw beautiful little lights. She was curious and discovered the lights were in the eyes of Spirit Children. Jindalee was entranced and followed the Spirit Children onto the land. Jindalee turned south, collecting the children and putting them in her hair.
- Placename
- Coombarnup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-33.311111 Longitude115.666111 Start Date End Date
Description
Her journey begins when she put her feet on the land near Coombarnup (Bunbury). This was and remains a major meeting place for the three Nyoongar nations the Waardandi, the Kaneang and Pindjarup people whose land connects just east of Coombarnup.
- Placename
- Leschenault Estuary
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-33.26333 Longitude115.696111 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint. Sea levels have risen since this footprint was made and it is now joined to the sea
- Placename
- Yalgorap
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.908333 Longitude115.6775 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee Footprint. Her tasks, as she walked this way, was to ensure the rivers were clean and there was food for the birds. Her footprints were, and remain, places where rivers flowed.
- Placename
- Noorook Yalgorap
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.745 Longitude115.653611 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee footprint. Noorook Yalgorap (Lake Clifton) means the lake with eggs. It is, like all Yalgurap, a yorka (womens) place as is the area known as Wokalup, place of the Rainbow Serpent. Noorook Yalgorap links Jindalee in both her Spirit Woman and Rainbow Serpent forms. The noorook (eggs) are a reference to the eggs laid by the Rainbow Serpent. They are the thrombolites, which, like stromatolites are produced by excretions of an algea called cynobateria. Jindalee wept rainbow tears and gave the world colour, cynobacteria also gave the world colour.
- Placename
- Djilda
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.573056 Longitude115.676667 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprints, now partly inundated with seawater, known as Peel-Harvey Estuary. A place such great bounty it was a major meeting place. Mandjar (Mandurah) with its bays full of fish and shellfish and proximity to the seasonal benefits of Djilda and the surrounding swamps made an excellent place for large gatherings at almost any time of the year. Mandja became a marketplace where people from many places gathered to trade ochres, tools made from particular stone and plants and their extracts that were not locally available such as pidjeri, from which an oral nicotine lozenge was made. Any large gathering place inevitably leads to the blossoming of new relationships. Unlike Mandjmup, which was a place of arranging and conducting marriages, Mandjoogoorap (meeting place of the heart) was perhaps a place where those from different tribal groups could find a partner, provided their totems were appropriate.
- Placename
- Barragup Lake and Goegrup lake
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.5375 Longitude115.798889 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprints. At Barrgup, there is a traditional mungah (fish weir).
- Placename
- Walyungarup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.339722 Longitude115.771389 Start Date End Date
Description
Walyungarup (place where Nyoongars talk) was probably a meeting place, the area could sustain a number of people at certain times of the year
- Placename
- Lake Cooloongup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.295556 Longitude115.771389 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, between here and Jennalup (Blackwall Reach) her footprints have been covered by sea.
- Placename
- Banganup lake
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.165 Longitude115.824167 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, also known as toodjabubup toodja meaning a plentiful as in Toodjay (place of plenty)
- Placename
- Jilbup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.144167 Longitude115.825833 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, now known as Thomson's Lake
- Placename
- Yangebup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.123056 Longitude115.834444 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint. Yangebup named, like Yanchep, after the native flax yanget.
- Placename
- Walliabup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.094722 Longitude115.786111 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, now known as Bibra Lake.
- Placename
- Jennalup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.016111 Longitude115.786111 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprints come back on land at Jennalup meaning place of the foot (Blackwall Reach). Her footprint created the deepest part of the river. It was the place where one of the Spirit Children grasped onto her hair with long fingernails, snapping off her hair and it fell to the earth, this has become closely associated with Lake Joondalup. Jennalup was traditionally a place for woman. When boys were undergoing a ritual test for manhood, they needed to jump off the Reach, catch a fish and present it to their women folk waiting by the spit at what is now Point Walter.
- Placename
- Beebeenup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.91 Longitude115.846111 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee footprint now known as Dog Swamp
Details
Latitude-31.926667 Longitude115.822778 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, now known as Lake Monger.
- Placename
- Ngoogenboro
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.923611 Longitude115.813611 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint, now known as Herdsman Lake.
- Placename
- Gwelup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.878333 Longitude115.789167 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint.
- Placename
- Karrinyup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.923333 Longitude115.786944 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint now known as Karrinyup Waters.
- Placename
- Goollelal
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.075833 Longitude115.811389 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint.
- Placename
- Joondalup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.744444 Longitude115.795833 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint’s created a series of lakes here. Although Jennalup (Blackwall Reach) was the place where Jindalee’s hair fell it has become closely associated with Lake Joondalup. This is because at certain times of the year the lake gives a wonderful reflection of the Joondal – the Milky Way. Hence the name jondal (hair).
- Placename
- Neerabub
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.678611 Longitude115.749444 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint.
- Placename
- Nowergup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.633889 Longitude115.729722
Description
Jindalee's footprint. Lake Nowergup means a place of sweet water.
- Placename
- Carabodah
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.6175 Longitude115.7225 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint, now a small lake.
- Placename
- Pipidinny
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.583889 Longitude115.683889 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint, now a swamp.
- Placename
- Wilgarup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.573611 Longitude115.694722 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint.
- Placename
- Yonderup
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.556389 Longitude115.686389 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee’s footprint.
- Placename
- Yanchep (Crystal Cave)
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.5475 Longitude115.6925 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee passed here on her way north, leaving a crystal cave. Named after the native flax yanget.
- Placename
- Yanchep (Waters)
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.532222 Longitude115.6725 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint. Yanget grows extensively here. The root is about a finger in diameter and a foot length long and is used to make bread after being peeled, roasted and pounded to make flour. Burning of the leaves prior to the April-May harvest improved the flavour of the bulb. The yanget season was a time for people to gather and celebrate. The rushes were extremely useful as they were made into a string, which had all manner of purposes including the construction of nets. Nets were used for fishing and for catching waterfowl. Strategically hung between trees a Nyoongar would use his boomerang to cause the birds on the water to rise in panic and be caught in the net.
- Placename
- Yanchep (Springs)
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.455833 Longitude115.665 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's left springs in her wake.
- Placename
- Unnamed
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.4275 Longitude115.521389 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee songline carries on north under the ocean.
- Placename
- Unnamed
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-28.865278 Longitude114.614722 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee songline carries on north under the ocean.
- Placename
- Africa Reef
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-23.799167 Longitude114.578056 Start Date End Date
Description
Her footprints and the children who fell from her hair as rocks created what is now called the African Reef system.
- Placename
- Jambinbirri
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-28.399167 Longitude115 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee resting place now known as Chapman Valley.
- Placename
- Nabawa
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-28.693611 Longitude114.647222 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee turned east to Nabawa. She needed to rest, she sat down creating a valley surrounded by flat topped hills. As she rested a family formed called numarakara. They are represented by a big rock for Dad, a smaller rock for Mum and little rocks for the kid
- Placename
- Mingenew
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-29.193056 Longitude115.442222 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee's footprint. She suddenly realised that picking up the children was wrong for they were the future generations of carers of everything. She began to wander around in a panic.
- Placename
- Jennacubine
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.441389 Longitude116.717222 Start Date End Date
Description
Jennacubine (footprint of spirit woman).
- Placename
- Meckering
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.628333 Longitude117.0075 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee grew afraid and trembled, the trembling moved down into the land. She cried out; “what have I done? What have I done?” The place where Jindalee trembled is now known as the Southwest Seismic Zone, a region of concentrated intra-plate seismicity, which produces swarms of trembles. This zone delivered the famous Meckering earthquake, registering 6.9 on the Richter Scale in 1968.
- Placename
- Wal kwetjang
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-31.181389 Longitude117.381944 Start Date End Date
Description
Jindalee tried to put the children back on the land but they turned to stone. She let go of her hair and Spirit Children tumbled to the ground turning to stone, the stones became higher and higher. She began to run, weeping, moving into land that she had not been in before, the Spirit Children still in her hair were screaming in fear…More children were falling and turning to stone, the piles of stones grew higher and higher. Where Jindalee roamed over the land in great distress, there are now chains of salt lakes. These are vestiges of ancient river systems. When seen on satellite image these little salt lakes look like strings of tears. The area is now known as Wyalkatchem but when it was first recoded in 1876 it was as Wal kwetjang, an approximation of what the local Nyoongars called it, which translates as land of ancient tears.
- Placename
- Kartagitj
- Type
- Other
Details
Latitude-32.4425 Longitude118.893056 Start Date End Date
Description
More children were falling and turning to stone, the piles of stones grew higher and higher. Jindalee put her foot on the pile of stones, and they tumbled and rolled like a wave down through the southwest. The stone beneath her foot suddenly sprang up like a trampoline flinging the Spirit Woman up into the sky. This was called Kartagitj (head first like a spear). It is now known as Wave Rock. The songline continues in the sky, her hair spread out to form the Milky Way and the remaining children are stars in the Milky Way. Continue reading the story in Noel Karda Nannup’s book Moondang-ak Koorliny kaaradiny (Batchelor Press, NT. 2006)
