Comprehensive and Rich Material

You will be pleased to hear that we now have the drafts from our five research/authors and the material is  comprehensive and rich. It has been a privilege to read it all and it is wonderful raw material for the next stages of the project.

I would like to say a big thank you to the writers and the reference groups from each area for their feedback.

Over the last few months I have been asked by many people what this particular part of the project is about and simply put - imagine it like this:

Imagine you visit a“place” either made by humans or by nature. You can appreciate it for itself and your appreciation is based on your own knowledge. Your own  knowledge is gained for example through experience, education, training, level of initiation, level of imagination or belief.  Every individual has their own lens through which they see things and the depth of seeing or understanding determines their interpretation reflected in the stories they tell about it.

Your stories are what informs us about what you are seeing or have seen.

Now imagine that you are visiting a place with someone else who has a different way of seeing. They know the landscape with a completely different set of “knowings” and as a result guide and enrich your knowledge and experience by the stories they tell. It could be a geologist, an experienced bush walker, an artist, a marine biologist, a conservations or a developer, dreamer, magician or a con man.

The material we have researched and developed in this part of the project can be seen as different layers of knowledge or ways of seeing aspects of the Sapphire Coast as part of Australia’s Coastal Wilderness. That is the layers of stories that weave their way through and underpin the landscape of our key heritage stories - The Meeting of the Waters, In the Shadow of the Mountains, The Killers of Eden, The Bundian Way and Naturally Inspired 

The next step in this process is to develop and identify the tools and techniques to make this information accessible to our visitors and stimulate them to explore more