This Friday we went out with the rangers and started preparing the cycad nuts that we collected last week. We learned how to crack them without crushing them. Some of us hit our fingers a few times and it hurt a bit, but we are okay and we got better at it the more we did it.
First we had to cut down some trees with a machete to make the sticks we needed to crack the nuts. Then we had to find a nice flat rock each for placing the nut on to hit it. We sat together and listened to stories told by Florence, Sylvia, and Elizabeth.
(Oh yeh… and we got a flat tyre on the way home, but our awesome teacher, Damon, fixed it while our other teacher, Kirra, took photos of him!)
Listening to stories while we work.
Shana finds a good stash.
Finding our tools.
SO MANY nuts to crack.
Preparing our cracking sticks.
Collecting the cycad nuts.
Vashti gives a nut a good crack.
Elizabeth and Sylvia show the girls how to crack the nuts.
Getting our tools ready.
Damon saves the day!
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