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Why Paiwalla


Paiwalla is Aboriginal for ‘right arm’.

It recalls the powerful right arm with which Ngurunderi 
 hurled his javelin-like weapon at ‘Ponde’.

Ngurunderi , the great ancestral king of the Murray tribes came down the river in pursuit of a giant Murray Cod, Ponde. 
When near Monteith he poised his spear and said, ‘now I will kill him’; the fish escaped at great speed, cutting a straight channel in the river as far as Tailem Bend. It was here that Ngurunderi  failed for a second time to kill the giant cod.

Extracts from ‘Place Names of South Australia’ by Geoffrey Manning

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Wetland Restoration on the Lower River Murray, South Australia
Paiwalla Wetland owned by Paiwalla Pty Ltd and managed by Wetland Habitats (Paiwalla) Assoc.Inc
PO Box 5, Strathalbyn  SA  5255           0418 853 911           paiwallawetland@gmail.com