Acrylic on Canvas
The Devils Marbles are a well known landmark in Australia. The oval boulders called Karlu Karlu by the local Aborigines.
My fairy is meditating, with a little Bilby beside her.
Did you know that a lot of Australians buy chocolateBilbies instead of bunnies at easter.
Bilbies are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia and closely related to the bandicoots. Before European colonisation of Australia there were two species. One became extinct in the 1950s, the other survives but remains endangered. The term bilby is a loan word from the Yuwaalaraay Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales, meaning long-nosed rat. It is known as dalgite in Western Australia and the nickname pinkie is sometimes used in South Australia. The Wiradjuri of New South Wales also call it bilby.
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