Djilgi Dreaming Yabbie Farm Tour
Join Grant and Anne Riley on an experience in the bush garden at the Wuddi Aboriginal Art Gallery in the Golden Outback region of Western Australia. Your tour commences in the sunken bush food garden surrounded by native bush foods. Your guide Grant will welcome you in language and share his history, traditional artefacts, storytelling and cultural heritage of the area and its first people.
Learn about the Aboriginal history combined with a visit to a local yabbie farm before being treated to a gourmet yabbie lunch. An important food source to the Wilman people was the ‘Djilgi’ (yabbie). As you will discover on this tour, the spiritual and cultural connections that the region’s First People share with this place are still very much alive and how this traditional delicacy is now in global demand.
Location
Lake Dumbleyung and surrounding venues.
What to expect
Join the Riley’s as you relax in the sunken bush food garden surrounded by native bush foods. Your guide Grant will welcome you in language and share his history, traditional artefacts, storytelling and cultural heritage of the area and its first people. Try your hand at roasting quandong nuts over the fire whilst sampling Anne’s modern twist of emu pate, homemade jam, bush damper and tea.
Travel in air-conditioned comfort on our 12 seater tour bus and visit the local yabbie farm to see the operations, purchase local gourmet products and sample these freshwater delicacies and enjoy a gourmet lunch. This freshwater crustacean was once abundant in Lake Dumbleyung and was traditionally cooked over open coals. Extensive land clearing and the resulting rise in the lake’s salinity has all but wiped out the local supply of the Djilgi from Lake Dumbleyung. A local enterprising farming family now farm the yabbie commercially.
What is included
This tour runs once a month on a Wednesday at 10am, please check book now button or enquire now for other available times with a minimum of 4 guests. Tours start and finish at Wuddi Cultural Centre. Some of the drives between locations are one hour long. No toilets are on the bus. We encourage guests to use public toilets at locations and venues visited.
This tour operates with a minimum of 4 guests and a maximum of 12 guests.
Tour includes:
- Aboriginal Guide
- Bush garden and food experience at Wuddi Cultural Centre
- Air conditioned tour bus
- Entry to the Yabbie farm
- Gourmet Yabbie Lunch
Group bookings can be arranged outside of usual tour times.
Please note the Yabbie Farm is not Aboriginal owned. They work in partnership with Wuddi Aboriginal Cultural Tours to deliver this experience.
Meeting point
Dumbleyung Cultural Centre, 22 Harvey Street, Dumbleyung, Western Australia.
What to bring
- Camera
- Hat
- Sneakers
- Sunglasses
- Sunscreen
- Water bottle
YOUR EXPERIENCE PROVIDER
Wuddi Aboriginal Cultural Tours
Three hours south east of Perth is the wheatbelt town of Dumbleyung. The name Dumbleyung is derived from the Aboriginal word ‘dambling’ meaning large lake or inland sea. The Wuddi Cultural Centre celebrates the area’s ancient Aboriginal history, keeping it alive by sharing local cultural traditions, bushfoods, stories, artworks and artefacts. Visitors can purchase authentic Aboriginal items from all over Western Australia, with many locally crafted right here in Dumbleyung including; tapping sticks, boomerangs, didgeridoos, artworks, bush jewellery, bush foods and jams. The Cultural Centre also operates culturally themed tours that range from bush food tastings and walking tours of the region’s important Aboriginal sites. Wuddi Cultural Centre is a place that offers a warm welcome and a surprising insight into the Aboriginal history of the region.
Grant and Anne Riley run Wuddi Aboriginal Cultural Tours in Dumbleyung. Grant is a Wilman man and is passionate about sharing his culture with visitors and guests. He was born and grew up in Dumbleyung. Grant is the third youngest of 14 children for Henry and Ruby Riley. Grant would follow his father Henry Riley out bush where he learnt heaps of knowledge about his people of this area, the tools, foods, etc. Anne is a Balladong woman from Quairading. She looks after the cultural centre, gift store and prepares bush tucker inspired food for the tour guests and visitors.
Djilgi Dreaming Yabbie Farm Tour
