Trisha turned the motor off and let the boat idle in the middle of the river.
"I gonna stop the boat here" she said, "and if you mob all stay nice and quiet we gonna hear a whole lot of different bird yeah? Maybe kingfisher"
And with that, Ella woke up and quick as a flash we supplied the emergency jelly babies and another diplomatic incident was averted.
"Did you hear him?" she asked a few minutes later, before reeling off a list of things audible to her well-trained aborigine ears but barely registering on anyone else's.
They're good these aborigines, but she missed the rustling of the bag the jelly babies were in, a sound the whitefella's ears picked up with no problem at all.
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