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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 […]
You know, the Currant bush aka Warrior bush is a very interesting guest. It can live up very high in bimblebox As well as being found in coolabahs & rosewoods and is agreeable to sharing a crotch with other guests. Below is 2 views of a rosewood & currant bush double TinT on the neighbour’s […]
Im writing this from the ‘big smoke’ (Sydney) trying out some city living for a change. I will be of ‘no fixed abode’ this time next year which will new for me. Not couch surfing as such but moving around the mid North coast hinterland, the central west, the far North west & Sydney. Over […]
The definition of gaslighting can be extended to include an act or acts perpetuated by any person in a position of power designed to manipulate less powerful others to doubt themselves or question their own sanity or memory (Davis & Ernst, 2019). Ive had some interesting emails before but a month ago I was […]
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