A package holiday coach tour in August 2024 went from Broome in Western Australia to Perth. One of the places visited was the Pinnacles, in Nambung National Park, south of Cervantes, about half way between Geraldton and Perth. This would probably be in Amangu country, indicated in green on the map above right. The Pinnacles are a landscape of limestone pillars in profusion extending for what seems square kilometres, commonly about one metre tall but often larger as in this il

Dieri is an Aboriginal language once spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in Cooper Creek country  in the Sturt Stony Desert in north-west South Australia. In 1874 a 51-page text, “The Dieyerie tribe of Australian Aborigines”, by local resident Samuel Gason, was published.  Information from < https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/gason.htm > reveals that Gason, in 1864 in his early twenties, accepted a position in the South Australian police force and was posted to Lake Hope,