"... They were thinking it was a barramundi or something. They were really glad, they all jumped into the lagoon, all the girls, to grab that fish ... But he was waiting for those two particular girls to swim so he could grab them ... They were all watching as the Moon took those two girls up, up, up, up, up, till they got to the cloud, up all the way, watching till they disappeared."
This traditional story is from the Pootchemunka family whose land includes Ti-Tree Lagoon south of Aurukun. The story is one of Indigenous Australia's wealth of moon stories. It was told in Wik-Mungkan and English by the old women who own the story, sitting beside the lagoon at their Outstation in the nineteen-seventies.
