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Bookabee Tours is featured regularly in the media.

Below are the most current features and links to the complete articles.

Bounty of the bush in ochre

STATE OF PLAY: Christine McCabe // From: The Australian // April 10, 2010

An indigenous art and culture tour illuminates the history of South Australia’s Wilpena Pound

THE wash-up from Queensland’s storms and floods seems to have trickled south to the Flinders Ranges, for there have been summer rains in South Australia’s arid north and the red dirt is scribbled with green.

The bush is alive with new growth and tiny flowers, beguiling in their modesty.

Trailing up a rough path to Arkaroo Rock, nestled in the shadow of Wilpena Pound, our small group is constantly diverted by diminutive botanic delights: clusters of minuscule flowers bracketed in white leaves or hidden groves of the enchantingly named sleep dust fern (miyavuta or miya-vuthi)…

…Our guide Haydyn Bromley is an Adnyamathanha man (the “hills or rock people” of the Flinders) and his Adelaide-based company, Bookabee Tours, offers guided excursions in and around the South Australian capital, the Flinders Ranges and beyond.

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Travelling in Australia magazine TIAM

Outback Walkabout// TIAM: Issue 123// May 2010

The spectacular Flinders Ranges lure thousands of visitors each year and all will return with tales of rugged mountains, scenic gorges and abundant wildlife. That’s only half the story. Tour the area with Haydyn Bromley and discover the secrets of the Flinders Ranges – the Dreamtime stories and Aboriginal Culture – and visit traditional significant sites to view ancient paintings and engravings.

The Adnyamathanha people (meaning Rock People) have inhabited the region for more than 45000 years.

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Charms of the serpent

Home/Travel: Max Anderson // From: The Age // May 29, 2010

Bromley is well-known in Adelaide for his indigenous tours, especially for his bush-tucker tour of the city’s most Victorian of installations, the Adelaide Botanic Garden. But his heritage, as well as his heart, is in the Flinders Ranges…

…Perhaps as part of that evolution, Bromley tells stories to non-Aboriginal visitors. He takes the group on an hour’s walk up Moonarie Gap to see cave paintings in the mouth of a huge head-shaped rock. There are crosses in ochre and groups of digit-sized people daubed in pipe-clay – groups of Adnyamathanha ancestors at Ikara where two giant serpents have circled, poised to gobble them up.

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