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The long anticipated arrival of Qld ecologists Jen Silcock & Russell Fairfax took place on Easter Monday & they had a week recording TinTs and viewing other CMTs here. I hadn’t met Russell before but was surprised by how much their son Rowan & his vocabulary had grown in 7 months. The mosquitos were fierce […]

Hi all – having Inode issues again atm so apologies if anyone was trying to look at the website. I dont know if this post will be published as its probably the file that breaks the camels back. I have too many photos on this site & crazy domains / word press are sick of […]

Aboriginal tourism workshop – NATOC + DNCO + NSW LALC         I attended a very interesting meeting at the Tamworth golf club last week. It was “An introduction to Aboriginal Tourism” and all the speakers were right on top of their game. The welcome to country was given by Daisy Cutmore the deputy chairperson of […]

     I have just ordered & read “Sticks and Stones” published by the Border Rivers – Gwydir CMA, a follow up to ‘’Bush Tucker, Boomerangs & Bandages”. Even though we are outside the geographical area on their map, we share much of the same vegetation and are within the Kamilaroi/ Gomeroi nation boundaries. Both books […]

   Im re reading a great Australian classic written in 1959 by Dame Mary Durack – Kings in grass castles. I thought the biography of her Grandfather & other pioneering relatives may give some insight into CMTs but Gomeroi lands are too far south and east to be relevant to the story. Around the time […]

        So this scartree website is now in the hands of the modern gods – the tech people who run the world (or crazy domains at least). They will attempt to operate on the site to remove sufficient Inodes from its innards so we can stay hosted. There are often lots of flotsam & jetsam […]

Ive been getting a lot of technical emails from my web server about inodes & load speeds & VPS that I don’t understand but the general gist is I have way too many photos of trees on this website. Although Im still uploading photos with 800 pixels the size & quality of these pictures are […]

The rush of a combined shearing/lambmarking is over to be followed by a stop start harvest. Grain can’t be stripped when its wet and too much rain and cloudy weather will downgrade and devalue the crop. A dry sowing period followed by a wet growing season & then a dry harvest is the ideal. This […]

For the Gomilaroi diaspora (mob)     Shearing time and lambmarking brings me into contact with more Trees in Trees as ewes and lambs are very slow and I’m mustering all the grazing paddocks (about 30,000 acres). The more I see, the more fascinating these TinTs are but the questions about their origins remain and the […]

       I’m more conscious now of the close links between the Gomilaroi and Waiwun people and how they occupied the countryside pre 1788. When rivers fail in massive climate upheavals like the last iceage they leave their traces in the landscape. Here along the paleo river there are huge sand deposits with redgum lined lagoons […]