Dolphin Dreaming

About the Book

This is the story of Australian Aborigines and dolphins, both possessing amazing powers of non-verbal communication over great distances. Long ago, before the white mancame both enjoyed a mutually benevolent relationship—often dolphins helped Aborigines fish; they warned them of approaching storms, and eventually of the invasion of the British ships. But after the British had conquered and killed many natives and forced the rest onto reservations in the interior of the land, they lost touch with each other.. Fast forward to today. An American family comes to Australia to live.The mother, a sociologist, accompanied by her children, goes to interview an Aborigine chief, They hear the chief tell of the sad loss of that relationship with the dolphins, including every year at summer solstice, they had had a celebration on the island lagoon, with the dolphins jumping and spinning and imitating the Aborigines playing flutes, sticks, and boomerangs. But now, sadly, all was lost. The children decided to go on an adventure with their new friend, the chief’s granddaughter. They borrowed a rowboat and started to cross the channel when a storm came up. Suddently there were several large bodies, the dolphins, pushing the boat toward the island lagoon. There they made new friends in the shallow waters of the barrier reef island. Their mission - to put the dolphins back in touch with their Aborogine friends attracted attention from all over the world. Finally there was a celebration like none other at the lagoon on the barrier island. It was the return of the ”corroborree” only this time with international celebrities to join in the “symphony of joy”. And the Aborigines, who had been almost a forgotten race until then, resumed their rightful place as Caretakers of Mother Earth.

About the Author

Sharon Bernard is a retired corporate vice-president and former Canadian journalist who has lived all over the north and south Pacific. She has had an affinity for dolphins and has swam with wild dolphins off her beach house in Mexico. She has also done research on their behaviors and participated in dolphin training session in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. It is her wish that this book makes readers respect the intelligence of dolphins and the importance of the Aborigine’s belief that we are caretakers of Mother Earth. She hopes to write a series on this need to treasure nature and restore the damage we have done to her.