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tarpu living waterhole Tarpu is a big jila (waterhole, spring) in the Great Sandy Desert. Thats turtujarti country (desert walnut), them trees little ones turtujarti and the big ones turtujarti, them they’re yarun (bloodwood, trees with lighter trunks)”.

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PARLPATA WATERHOLE “Parlpata Jila (springwater) not little one, big big one, and jilji (sandhill), out bush long way other side of Japirnka in the Great Sandy Desert. I been kill a big fat goanna here, I been dig him up from the ground. I bin also drink this water when Read more…

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