Our country in the wet

A season of plenty

Mural, the freshwater swamp crab emerges from its burrow beneath the swamp to mate and lay its eggs. It is also food for brolgas and other water birds.

Thetl ngupanvm, the bullfrog comes out in the wet to mate and have its young. It likes hunting in the light rain of the night for insects and smaller frogs. Like the green frog and Minh kotor the crocodile, it is a cannibal. It eats its own kind.

Minh ngoro. The magpie geese gather as the wetlands fill with water, rice grass and May wolvm, bulgurruw to tie their nests. February and March is the main laying time and for gathering eggs. Everyone gathers the Minh nhapn, eggs during goose egg time. Pirram, the wet season is a time of plenty for traditional foods. Rivers and wetlands fill with life. Many people fish along the banks of the Magnificent Creek for bream and jewfish.

May melvnh, the edible grass lily: Aponogeton elongatus

MITCHELL RIVER DELTA COUNTRY

A beautiful place of cyclones and floods that happen regularly as natural events. The annual wet season and dry seasons are something that northern Australians live with and love.

Surprise and Mottle Creeks with Main Mitchell River to the right February 2009

Egrets and Spoonbills foraging on the edge of a saltwater marshland Near Monl par Wet season 2019