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Examples of sacred sites can be found in natural features such as hills, rocks, waterholes, trees, plains, lakes, and billabongs, according to the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority.

The men, named Dac and Daniel, had been fishing at a billabong in the Top End region when Daniel hooked an “absolute donkey” of a barramundi, Dac recounted to Australia’s ABC Radio.

Two months earlier, a 4.7-metre saltie latched on to the outstretched arm of Bill Scott, an experienced fisherman who had sought to steady himself after the creature had rocked his boat on a billabong.

Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars.

In 2015, the pair then released the camera into the rivers and billabongs—abandoned river channels or stagnant water.