Wodiwodi
The Wodiwodi also pronounced Whardi Whardi (according to an interview with Joan Mc Grady- early 1990s) peoples are the Indigenous Australian people of New South Wales, a sub-group of the Dharawal nation. Language. The Wodiwodi language, considered a dialect of Tharawal was briefly described by William Ridley in 1875, who obtained this information, via her husband, from the wife of John Malone, Lizzie Malone, a "half-caste", whose mother was a Shoalhaven Indigenous person. Country. The Wodiwodi are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had some of country in the area north of the Shoalhaven River and reaching  to Wollongong; their territory took in the Illawarra district, including Lake Illawarra, Berkeley and Hooka Creek. Their descendants are considered one of the custodians of the land in this area. Mythology. The Wodiwodi word for the creator figure called Baiame by contiguous tribes, was "Mirrirul", from the word "mirīr", meaning "sky." Whardi Whardi Landscape features. The Wodi Wodi Walking Track, Stanwell Park, New South Wales is named after the Wodiwodi people.