Gulibunjay and his magic boomerang
This story is related by
story-tellers at the Yarrabah Aboriginal settlement. Gulibunjay
was a Dreamtine man who had a son, Wangal, who was a living
boomerang. Once he threw the boomerang towards the ocean. It
went around in a great curve and cut a path through the forest
before swinging back to the ocean. It first hit a staghorn fern,
then a red penda tree. Gulibunjay followed along the great
swathe cut in the forest by his son, the boomerang. he went
along searching for his son and naming the various plants and
animals and natural features of the landscape. When he came to
the sea, he knew that his son had drowned, so he sat down on a
mountain where he remains to this day, looking down at the sea
and yearning for his son.