This art is the work of Kim Peckham

and has been digitally enhanced by photography...

Wayamba the Turtle..
The turtle man was out gathering food when he saw the lizard man's wife named Oola
and her three children digging yams. Wayamba decided he would like a wife and a family
so he took them home.
When Wayamba's tribe saw what he had done they were very angry. They approached the
turtle man and said, you are going to be punished for this and the turtle man laughed .
Early next morning he saw the fury of his tribe as they showered him with spears.
Wayamba chose the two biggest shields that he had , one he slung on his back and one on
his front. As the spears came whizzing through the air, Wayamba drew his arms inside the
shields and ducked in his head down between them, shower after shower of weapons they slung
at him and they were getting closer so that his only chance to get away was to dive into the
creek, and the tribe never saw him again.
But in the water hole where he had dived , they saw a strange creature which had a plate
fixed on its back. When they tried to catch this creature it drew in its head and limbs.
So they said, it is Wayamba. And this was the beginning of Wayamba or turtles in the creeks.