After breakfast this morning we joined Mick and two other guests for a walk in the bush while Mick, of Aboriginal decent, explained the use of various plants for food and medicine. Mick explained about the culture and the reverence for the land and the sea. He showed us how they used plants to make rope, and we tasted some of the sap they get from the trees.
We returned to the lodge for lunch. Later in the afternoon we joined others to head over to a Devil enclosure. Saffire is participating with the effort to help save this endangered animal. There is a disease that is infecting the Tasmanian Devil, a type of cancer that passes from one to the other. In this enclosure that is close to their natural habitat, these animals remain free of the infection. There are several Devils here, two females, May and Maizie, and a couple of males. The sexes are kept separate.
When we reached the enclosures, the animals were very active, and we got to see them runaround and pose for us. Then the associate who led us, went into the enclosure to feed the two females, who had not been fed in two days. She led them around trailing a dead Wallaby. Then hooked it to a point in the ground and the two went to town tearing into the carcass.
