By Carmel Rowley

he chestnut mare glanced at the newborn foal - pushing and licking - encouraging the delicate black filly to its feet. The filly - too black to be seen in the darkness of the night - blinked, struggled and nickered to her dam...
In the great southern land the mare and foal stood guarded by the majestic gums, tall and sparkling silver as the moon appeared from behind the night clouds - gossamer threads of moonlight illuminated the filly and the mare became still as the dark form of her foal took shape. Finishing her first drink this gamin fairy like creature began to spin and cavort in the moonbeams. She raised a wisp like tail puffed her nostrils and danced on tip toe around her dam.
The dingoes raised their eyes to the bright moon, while the nocturnal bush creatures within the canopy of the great gums enjoyed the performance. Possums peeped with wide luminous eyes while an echidna family came scuffling in to see the show. Mysterious kangaroo's and wallaby's stopped and stared at the dainty filly dancing out her destiny.
Light as a feather, seemingly never to touch the ground, the magical filly paid homage to her ancestors in another great sunburned land far, far away!

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*"Dreamtime" (in aboriginal mythology) means the time in which the earth received its present form and in which the patterns and cycles of life and nature were initiated