SPLENDOUR IN THE FOREST:
The only remaining wildlife corridor from the sea to the rainforest mountains in far north-eastern New South Wales, between the cities of south east Queensland and the town of Byron Bay, exists at Yelgun. The forested corridor runs along Marshall's Ridge and Jones Road, through private properties such as North Byron Park lands and the Billinudgel and Wooyung nature reserves. The splendour of colourful flowers and birds, remarkable animals such as the koala, the majesty of magnificent trees, the recycling of energy, the musical calls of the birds, wind in the trees, roar of the ocean and the beginning of ancient Australian culture all exist here.
Bundjalung tradition teaches that the Dreaming began at the Wandarahn
ceremonial site within the Billinudgel Nature Reserve at the eastern end of the
Jones Road Marshall's Ridge wildlife corridor. For forty thousand year or more the Dreaming Song Line was
sung along this corridor from the most sacred of all
Australian Aboriginal Bundjalung sites to the west and the rest of the
continent. It was here that the very first pair of Wandarahn or bora rings were
built, and they are the only pair to survive today, and in their natural
environment. It was here that the very first Wandaral ceremony was undertaken.
It was here that Yarbirri first made the law. It was from here that the law traveled north, south and west with Yarbirri and his brothers, Birrung and
Mamoon.
