#dimbulah

[unteriors]

Hyde Street, Dimbulah, Queensland.

[yeli-renrong]

When Ken Hale sent the Jabugay tape, he'd urged me to try to find aspeaker of Barbaram, the apparently aberrant language that Lizzie Simmons had declined to speak to us. Certainly Dyirbal and Jabugay had very normal Australian grammar and vocabulary, not radically different from the Western Desert language, almost two thousand miles away. But from the few words that Norman Tindale had published of Barbaram, that language looked really different.

People at Mareeba had mentioned Albert Bennett, at Petford, and early one Sunday morning I set out to try to locate him. I followed the winding bitumen road through Mareeba to Dimbulah, a small Italian-dominated town whose main crop was tobacco, usually with a few fields of marijuana hidden away round the back. From there it became a faint sandy track with no signposts at all. ...

Albert was an oldish, square-framed man with curly grey hair. He was sitting stolidly on a bench just outside his open front door. I introduced myself, but he really wasn't very interested. He didn't remember any Barbaram language, but who'd want it anyway? What good was it?

Now Stephen Wurm had prepared me for questions of this sort. Don't talk about universities, Wurm had said, they won't know what they are. Tell them you come from the museum in Canberra. Everyone knows what museums are, and everyone thinks they are good things. Say you want to put their language in the museum because it's something important. So that it can be preserved - one day their grandchildren can come and listen to it, and see how the old people spoke.

I tried this line on Albert Bennett and he seemed to soften a little. But he still sat quietly chewing on a piece of grass, on the end of the wooden bench, just in the shade. I stood in the sun and hoped. Finally he volunteered a word.

"You know what we call 'dog'?" he asked. I waited anxiously. "We call it dog." My heart sank - he'd pronounced it just like the English word, except that the fInal g was forcefully released. I wrote it down anyway. ...

Barbaram was still a major priority. Following Albert Bennett's suggestion, I'd located Mick Burns, living with his daughter's family in a house on tall stilts at the south end of Edmonton. He was a tall, light-skinned man, very old. He hadn't thought about his language in years, and didn't think he could help me. But I persisted, mentioned a few of the words Albert had given, and he grudgingly thought a bit. Mick Burns sat on the top step, leaning against the door frame, and I squatted on the step below. He remembered twenty-seven words. ... When I did go back the next week, he declined to talk at all. He'd done a bit of thinking, he said, and could remember nothing else. I'd have to go back to Albert.

At her suggestion, I had telephoned Mrs McGrath and asked her to pass on a message to Albert about when I was planning to come, so that he wouldn't go out fishing. Albert seemed quite happy - if not pleased - to see me, and made room for me to sit on the bench with him, out of the sun.

"I don't think I can help you much more ," he said, when I told him about Mick. "I did remember three more words, but I can't think of them now. Oh, heck." ...

Four years later, when I was spending a year at Harvard and first met Ken Hale, he pointed out that the e and o had developed in Mbabaram in the same sort of way as in some languages he had worked on from further up the Cape York Peninsula. An a in the second syllable of a word had become o if the word had originally begun with g. So from guwa "west", Mbabaram had derived wo. We were sitting on a beach near Gloucester, Massachusetts one Sunday in September when Ken suddenly saw the etymology for dog "dog". It came from an original gudaga, which is still the word for dog in Yidin (Dyirbal has shortened it to guda). The initial g would have raised the a in the second syllable to o, the initial ga dropped and so did the final a (another common change in the development of Mbabaram). Ergo, gudaga became dog ­- a one in a million accidental similarity of form and meaning in two unrelated languages. It was because this was such an interesting coincidence, that Albert Bennett had thought of it as the first word to give me.

R. M. W. Dixon, Memoirs of a Field Worker

[sharonvu]

#cappuccino #cappuccinoday 8Nov SharonVu photos 2017 to now #MOONBOWSG #coffeebeansg #coffeebeanandtealeaf #mccafe #dimbulah capp & chill https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-Tv-UPImt/?utm_medium=tumblr

[timegents]

Road Trip: The pubs of north Queensland's back country

Road Trip: The pubs of north Queensland’s back country

By MICK ROBERTS © THEY’RE a hardy bunch, those who call far north Queensland’s back country home. They have to be. It’s a harsh country, as we discovered on our road trip to Chillagoe, 200km west of Cairns, late in 2020. Our road trip took us along the Burke Development Road west of Mareeba, where we visited remote bush pubs, explored their history, and chatted to their publicans. The Burke…

[varsharosenotes]

Laxmi went to Ziggy’s birthday party the day after we got back from Wallaby Creek. There was a fabulous pass the parcel and Laxmi got some paint and a canvas that she started using immediately. Laxmi said she was tired for a whole week after we got back from Wallaby Creek.

Varsha and Lara started doing daily drawings for Inktober. They went to Kellie’s house too. Lara had an acupuncture treatment and they went to Cairns with her for swing dancing. They came home with Zeph and Luca. Zeph and Luca have moved into a house across our street.

The photos came out from the photo booth at the swing dancing festival. There are some lovely ones of Varsha and Luca and Thiango.

Cat and I were busy working on the set and costumes for the 12th Night and I did a mosaic workshop for the school holidays in Dimbulah.

Tim and Carly and Louie came to stay overnight and we had a big dinner with them and Cat and Will and Cosi and Thiango and George and Lara. Varsha and Thiango and Lara made chocolate brownie. Tim and Carly brought beautiful Lilies.

[guerrerense]

Savannah Lander in Dimbulah Station 3 - Aug 5, 2017 por Joseph Brimacombe Por Flickr:

[donyorkphotographer]

. . . and it's time to head home- Australia 2021 - #Australia #aussiephotos #queensland #rv #camping #vanlife #travel #paradise #photographer #australianphotographer #dyphotography (at Dimbulah, Queensland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNrv2lTsDIm/?igshid=84dccjua5ldq

[artofdamz]

#doodling while waiting for the Missus. Girl sitting on the corner outside my cafe. #digitalart #digitalillustration #procreate #drawing #pleinair (at Dimbulah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK51y2sHy3j/?igshid=1jxridqa8ih4s

[birdysingapore]

LimKoPi (at Dimbulah Coffee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGj86ArgiqF/?igshid=zxa6idymba8a

[humansofjcuhealth]

Cassowaries, Crocs and Clinical Careers

“At the beginning of semester two, 10 students from Club Rhino (Rural Health in the Northern Outback) jumped in a minivan and headed north on what was known as The Great Northern School Tour (not affiliated with ‘the beer from up here’… well… not officially). Our mission? To inspire students from Mossman, Dimbulah and Yarrabah State High Schools and to let them know that a career in health is a possibility for them!

Early on Tuesday morning we piled our stethoscopes, microscopes, mannequins, pastes and thickened fluids into the car at the JCU Townsville Campus. Our destination for the day was Mossman, 6 hours north. After a hearty breakfast at Mick’s Pies in Ingham, we continued our journey up the coast and entered dinosaur territory. Etty Bay is a short, 10-minute drive off the highway near Innisfail and the only thing standing between us and our toilet break was 4 giant, clawed cassowaries. These prehistoric birds, as tall as a fully-grown child, reminded us that we weren’t in the safety of the Ross Basin anymore; we were in the wild north.

After leaving Etty Bay with as many students as what we entered with, it was time to hit the road. The final stretch of highway between Cairns and Mossman was stunning. We described it as the ‘Northern Great Ocean Road’ as we snaked up the coastline, feeling as though we were driving over the water. Once in Mossman, it was a quick check-in at the gorgeous Mossman Holiday Village and on to our next activity, the Daintree River Cruise. The Daintree River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the country. According to our tour guide, if you swim across the river from bank to bank, and one of the hundreds of local crocodiles doesn’t get you, one of the thousands of bull sharks will. With this in mind, we decided that a hecs debt wasn’t the worst thing that could happen to you, and held firmly onto our seats in the boat. We saw multiple reasons to not go swimming in the river that day, the largest being a 3.5m saltwater crocodile.

After sufficiently frying our nerves with our wildlife encounters, we decided to head into tranquil Port Douglas for an evening of relaxation. Relaxation we wanted, fierce competition we got. It was at the Ironbar Hotel that we found ourselves thrown into the world of Cane Toad Racing. This is the only positive thing to come from the introduction of this pest into far north Queensland 85 years ago. These toads are thoroughbreds. We were lucky enough to have one of our pharmacy reps, Bec, jockey a toad (whose racing name was Jerry Springer) to a respectable third place.

At this point you might be wondering, ‘so did you actually visit any schools or what?’. Fair question, and I can assure you we did.

After exploring Mossman Gorge on the morning of our second day, we prepared for our first school visit. Our team was made up of health students from medicine, nursing, biomedical science and pharmacy and in addition to these disciplines, we also ran a dentistry and speech pathology station. This meant we had 6 stations in total through which the school students would rotate. Each station was designed to run for approximately 8 – 10 minutes and gave the school students an insight into each of these professions. The Medicine station was CPR, Nursing was anatomy and stethoscopes, Speech Pathology was thickened fluids and tongue twisters, Biomedical Science was a microscope with three slides, Dentistry was ‘how to brush your teeth’ and dental anatomy and Pharmacy was a compounding station. The aim of the stations was to show the school students that a career in health does not just mean being a doctor or nurse, but there are many other health career opportunities in rural towns. Before the session, each of the university students introduced themselves to show that there are many pathways into tertiary education and after the session, the 5 barriers (money, moving away from home, mates, marks, motivation) to tertiary education were also discussed. The main message of the visits was to let the year 9 and 10’s know that a career in health is a possibility for them. In all, we had approximately 50 students at our session in Mossman, and the interaction between university and school students were awesome.

Immediately following our visit to Mossman State High, we packed back into the minivan and drove up the range to Atherton. After dropping our bags, we visited Lake Eacham and the Curtain Fig, before having dinner at the iconic Barren Valley Hotel.

The next morning, and the final day of the Great Northern School Tour started early in Atherton. A quick coffee and we were on the road again to Dimbulah State School. Here we were lucky enough to join forces with the JCU Outreach and Participation Team, where we ran three separate sessions - one with years 5 & 6, one with years 7 & 8 and one with years 9 & 10. We used the same structure as the day before in Mossman and had an absolute ball with the students of Dimby. With the year 5 & 6 group, we ran an additional teamwork activity where we asked the students to spell ‘Team 5/6’ with their bodies. Following our big day in Dimbulah, we headed home via Emerald Creek Ice-creamery.

The following week, three Rhino students continued the Great Northern School Tour at the Yarrabah Career Market Day. Here we had our ‘Gutsy Gus’ thoracic anatomy model that the students could take apart, put back together and tell us what each of the organs were. We also had some stethoscopes that the students could use to listen to their own heart and breathing sounds. The aim of this visit was again to let the school students know that a career in health is a possibility for them, and communities like Yarrabah need health workers.

In the end, the Great Northern School Tour was a great success. Our team of 10 Rhino students reached approximately 250 students. Statistics show that health students from a rural background are more likely to return to rural practice when they graduate, and our mission as the Rural High School Visit Team is to reach as many students as possible to let them know that a career in health is a possibility for them.”

 - Alexander Belonogoff, Club Rhino Rural High School Visit Coordinator, 2019

[onessolitude]

Finally a well deserved break for me. (at Dimbulah Coffee) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtdZsJFhurH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=il661cwdj0ew

[brandonpang]

#sgcafe #cafe #cafehopping #cafeteller #café #caferacer #interiordesign #breakfast (at Dimbulah Coffee)

[lucasrdr]

Back to Dimbulah after two months in France - AUSTRALIA 2015

[festirose]

Picking Avocado in Dimbulah, Queensland

It was on 18 of January 2018 till 25 March 2018 located in Dimbulah, one of are of Queensland. A farm names DBC farm. It was nice ambience with good co workers and Supervisor. I took it to complete my 88 days for second year. I had such a good time in farm, one and only a farm with good treat for picker. I hear another one but i did not work at tat place so i can say DBC is great place. I want to go back next year if possible. 

Dimbulah is good place to get relax and escape from crowd of city. No transportation and mall in this area, dang! This made me so bored with Dimbulah, however I got good experience and friends. 

I lived with 3 people in unit house there are Anna, Kim and Van (my indo friend and 2 Vietnamese). They were nice person, I like to live with foreigner so I can keep practice English. Another friend i met; susan, Nadia, Agus, Shianty and Roni. they are friend’s of Anna. They are such a fun person without looking person from cover.  I feel comfy with them. 

My good co worker I felt connect are Mey, Hanna and Hadi. We support each other in work. Picking Avocado we did piece rate ( $3/bag). We ave target minimum 60 bags perday. Omg  it was hard for 2 weeks, but after that we getting improve to be faster and faster. Even hot and sweaty we always smile and laughing while listening music on supervisor’s truck  :) O yea,, my co workers from Indonesia, France, Chili, China, Taiwan and Spain. 

I had fun and complete my 88 days! 30 of May 2018, my 2nd year already granted :) YEahhh!!! I made it.

Thanks guys!! Mey, Hanna, Hadi, Anna, Susan, Kim, Van, Shian, Agus, Roni, and Nadia : )

[megjobsdbau]

Mango Harvest - Machinery Operating At The Agri Labour Australia Pty Ltd Dimbulah

Mango Harvest – Machinery Operating At The Agri Labour Australia Pty Ltd Dimbulah

As a Machinery Operator, you will mainly be responsible for the safe and skillful operation of Forklifts or Tractors. Previous experience operating Forklifts or Tractors is a must. This is a challenging and fast paced role, in which team work is vital. You will work in a team with other machinery operators, mango pickers and supervisors. As a part of this team you will be expected to contribute…

[donyorkphotographer]

Rural pub - Australia 2021 - #Australia #aussiephotos #queensland #travel #paradise #photographer #australianphotographer #dyphotography (at Junction Hotel Dimbulah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNrkxk1sJTY/?igshid=uj3gcedutav4