00:00All the waters that you're seeing in all these bays and little peninsulas wouldn't have existed.
00:14You've got to try and imagine at this time it was the Ice Age.
00:18A lot of the water that we see today, which is our levels, was captured in the Antarctica or in the Arctic.
00:24And so when the Ice Age ended, all that water then went into the oceans and the waters rose.
00:27But prior to that time, for a 10,000 to almost 20,000 year period, all of those land masses that are now covered in water were walkable.
00:39You could walk the entire eastern coastline all the way to the Bassian Plain or the Land Ridge as it is known.
00:46Pretty much went straight from the northeast of Tasmania all the way through to Victoria.
00:50The actual coastline was another 20 to 25 kilometres past Brunei Island and Brunei Island was a hilltop.
00:57If I could go back and talk to my ancestors, there's a few things I'd like to chat to them about.
01:12They were the most southern people on Earth in the time of the Ice Age.
01:17On the coldest time in human history.
01:19So we've had to live through some of the most coldest conditions on this planet.
01:22The ancestors of the Ice Age would have been an extremely resilient people because they're living amongst megafauna.
01:34It's hard to, as modern humans today, to imagine what it must have been like to live with things that were five times the size of you every single day in every valley.
01:42As a Tasmanian Aboriginal person today, the big thing that's been raised is our history.
01:49And so to be able to go back and speak to somebody in the deep time would be an amazing experience.
01:53But just being able to go back 200 years and to be able to talk would have been an amazing experience.
01:56For more information and for more information information, visit our website at www.fema.blogspot.com.
02:12So I just want to go back to our website.
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