Down south, pakana are watching glaciers melt.
Trickling streams at the bottom of valleys turn into rivers.
The melting ice makes lakes high in the mountains, in some places water is rushing in, swallowing up the great fresh water lagoon on the plains in the north (known thousands of years later as the Bassian Plains).
The pathway that connects the pakana to the people further north is shrinking.
It will soon be underwater.
Mountain tops on the former land bridge are becoming islands.
pakana have been living on lutruwita (Tasmania) for tens of thousands of years in tune with the land and they know it is time to move on to different parts of lutruwita.
For thousands of years pakana will be cut off from the people further north.
The climate will eventually warm and become more stable.
In the future their ancestors will learn that some people were stranded on these islands and on the other side of what will become a treacherous stretch of ocean (the Bass Strait), and even though the land bridge will remain under water, there will be inventions that enable their ancestors to reconnect.