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Greg picks a leaf from the ti tree. But it’s not the oil so beloved by beauticians that he’s interested in. “You see how dense the branches are?” he asks. “The Wadjuk people used them for fishing – up to 70 people would co-ordinate, create a wall of branches and march forward until the mullet were herded into the shore.”

In the sweaty, sapping heat of the Northern Territory, a refreshing dip in a pool would usually seem like a fabulous idea. But not this pool. This is Wendell’s pool, and I’m not quite sure how kindly he’ll take to sharing it.