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Not all aussie academics have low curiosity/ high PC type personalities. Some are genuinely helpful and break the bounds of their European style education. Most of my recent blogs have tended to be a bit gloomy re any chance of wider interest in the TinTs or CMTs in general so Ive decided to focus on […]
One of these trees below has been changed by humans – see if you can guess which. I don’t know why the ‘experts’ struggle to recognise the difference between cultural & natural epiphytes … but the pictures paint a thousand words. Pictures also take up more website data, unfortunately so Im writing more blogs now. […]
Full summer west of Walgett is not the best time to be out scartree hunting but my mustering work lets me check on some special CMTs around the paddocks. Our average summer temp. is 35 C & we have been hovering in the low 40s a few times already. The early Dec. blog was about […]
All good things come to an end and after 5 welcome wet years & a cracking 2025 grain crop, the seasons are turning. The predictions of a wet harvest proved unreliable and the Nth West NSW brought in a massive undamaged grain crop which helped offset the deficiencies in the south of the state. Swings […]
This map is from Lindsay Black’s “Burial trees” published in 1941. The area in red roughly marks where the TinTs are concentrated overlapping the “burial” & “ceremonial” zones. While the TinTs can be considered both, its clear early explorers, settlers, surveyors, missionaries, amateur anthropologists etc showed little interest in CMTs unless they were carved. Lindsay […]
Ive found some remarkable trees since I last wrote that I really need to show you. If you are interested in Australia’s CMTs & have been following this website you may have noticed my enthusiasm for different categories have changed over the last 10 years. The big flashy in-your-face scars held me spellbound originally. […]
I’ve talked about the as yet unidentified fungi providing the missing link between TinT guests & hosts before, but fire may also play a part. It just so happens that I found an example of both these methods of persuasion 20 metres apart along the Ginghet floodplain last week. There is also a belah ringtree […]
The long anticipated visit by Bill Gammage, author of “The biggest estate on earth – how Aborigines made Australia” & friends was a memorable event all round. Unfortunately, one of the trip instigators, Coonamble farmer/ CMT fancier Paul Underwood & wife Vronnie, couldn’t come due to illness but the rest made the long trip […]
The bibbilah of the Euahlayi (Yuwaalayaay) came from the box tree country according to Katie Langloh Parker (The Euahlayi Tribe A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia) This communal connection was … “based on belonging to one country or hunting-ground; this name a child takes from its mother wherever it may happen to be born” […]
Ive been finding and uploading CMTs around the Walgett- Carinda area for almost 10 years now. The biggest and best scars are found around the Cumborah ridges while the most interesting TinTs are here in the sandhills of the old Barwon river. However, the Ginghet creek & floodplains have the most extraordinary connected coolabahs which […]