Ngarluma-Yaburara people are constructing stone walls and using them like terrace gardens, making it easier to grow and harvest crops.
They’re located across the country here and can be used to grow yams, native tomatoes, carrots and bush potatoes.
Bush potatoes can be difficult to harvest where they naturally grow, so these walls act like a big pot plant, keeping the top soil in the one place that’s easy to access.
They allow people to harvest the crop from underneath rather than pulling them out of the ground.
Women would also farm native tomatoes, germinating seeds from previous years, and throw them down on flat areas after the men had burned off.
They do that in the winter time so that by the time the wet season comes in summer, they have plenty of tomatoes.
When cooked on coals, they taste like something between a capsicum and green apple.
The stones on the rocky hills around here are also used to build hides that men use while hunting kangaroos and to strategically to catch fish.
Expansive fish traps are built, 20-30 metres wide and consist of multi-layered weirs, making efficient use of the large tidal movements.
People went from hunting on the land to being masters of marine hunting, with turtle, fish, dugong, shellfish, mud crab and stingray becoming part of their diet.
But they only take what they need to make sure the supply will still be there for thousands of years to come.