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  • The Australian Women's Weekly

    Places in the heart

    Jan 26, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS by KATRINA LOBLEY

    As Carleeta Rose Helen Thomas pulls a shell necklace from its tiny basket, it unfurls like an iridescent serpent. Carleeta, a guide for the Aboriginal-owned and led wukalina Walk, is showing us a string of maireener (rainbow kelp) shells, given to her by Tasmanian environmentalist Bob Brown. It’s so long she can loop it around her neck twice. It’s also a gift so precious she can barely stand to wear it. And by the time I complete the four-day walk, from wukalina/Mt William in the north-east to larapuna/Eddystone

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