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West of Walgett

West of Walgett - scartree country

whitefella well at Shepherd's hut TB

scartree hunting 4

black yam orchard

big spreading coolabah in Stud paddock swamp

Bower birds nest

feral pigs in Preist

redgum & wilga CB

spot the dog TB

shepherd's hut at remnant redgums

scartree hunting...so exciting (Russell)

scartree hunting... so exciting (Ruby & Kit)

scars in big billabong

scar tree mustering on quad CB

outdated machine graveyard R

moving sheep in Mooroo

eagle nest in redgum Goorie

warrambool billabongs W

old relics from yesteryear

bough shelter or broken branches? bimber

house paddock full of old camps

echidna threesome TB

scarredy cat tree

last man standing - bimber

plover on nest SP

plover's egg SP

extreme scartree hunting 2

rosewood scars in Kraka

scars & steers Boonery

wildflowers on old river bed TB

close up termite? nest

bogged buggy in brigalow

leaves for smoking ceremonies - wilga

leaves for smoking ceremonies - Budda

barley grass for seed cakes

silver scales on redgum near huts

ezra & esmay - friends

Eurah shrub - ceremonial, spiritual & medicinal

lost lambs Wallangilla

swallows nests in scar MW

lost lamb & scar MW

lovely indigenous design !

Needlewood in flower

young bimble box - Eucalyptus populnea

Bogeye also called a Blue Tongue - wonder why ?

black cockatoo in flight

black cockatoo at rest

Goorie billabongs 2

prickly pear & guests

flowering lignum - Eremophila polyclada

old scars in dry billabong F1

old sand goanna wakes up

Ruby in Goorie tank

flowering whitewood

sky garden Wallangilla

Major Mitchell, I presume

massive coolabah scartree at Cuddie springs

Wild orange/ Capparis mitchellii/ bambul

mistletoe (baan) edible

Whitewood flowers

high up scar on road

holes & sky Boonery

leopardwood seed pods

Coolibah in flower

engraved tree WB

all this tree needs is some bark sheets laid on top...

milgee seedpods - bark for making tea

fleshy mistletoe on Wilga

Quinine seed pods - many bark uses

dragon lizard camouflage

canker scars not cultural

Gargaloo (gugumadharraa)

recumbent rosewood K

the matriarch coolabah on natural water catchment Avon

Bambul tree Cumbul tank

for every action a reaction ...

eagle & sheep in Stud

Budda twister - B/camp

RT directional strips

RT lovely old scar & vine

Darlinglily dhaygalbaarrayn

sand goanna camouflage

epicormic pincushion WG

Good camp tree - Moonal

axcuts & scars & mayhem

Tordon poison survivor TB

campfire related underside coolamon MR

black wattle - dhulan

distorted wood grain from fire

hatching or mating? Caper butterflies

the hand of history Moonal

remnant redgum understory TB

more needlewood fungi

old carvings or canker scars K

boonery bugs in B

warrambool watermark on scar WB

big internally burnt boxtrees with reshoots

scars & slashes ? Priest

Cumbul billabongs

emu pat hearth (campfire)

Bimblebox & sheep Moorie

mustering Moorie in drought

Galahs in Bimba crop

eagle in wait Bottle camp

burnt fork Mooroo

campfire scartree home for many

emus galore Goorie

old habitation & scars G

skink on scar Goorie

old junk hanging in Myall

S bend leopardwood N

ball & socket burl & looloo K

extensively scarred high K

the deceased...BonBon

funny little gecko with new tail

scartree tenant/guardian P

who lives here hollow?

bush caviar Keero

old lizard - frill neck ? P

boonery bugs in brigalow

caper butterfly & emu bush

old campsite WB

flowering fuchsia/ mukrum

mistletoe on myall

Now you see me !!!

Now you don't !!!!

extreme scarring cultural?

sweet coolie in country W

pterodactyl nest WB

old rabbit trap WB

I love scartrees XXXX P

Major Mitchell cockatoo

pterodactyl 2 Warrambool

ngaybaan/ nepine/ Capparis lasiantha

somebody camped here in Wallangilla

emu taking a swim Preist

hungry sandgoanna WB

bimblebox reshoots ? P

scartree enemy no.1 - whiteants

charcoal layer in sandhills

AFL stadium in Preist

classic all-rounder Preist

beewee without a tree P

well weathered scars M

eagle on the wing Antigar

moss possibly edible ? F2

big fella near the billabong

wood patterns Wallangilla

golden strips - lightning ?WG

wild lemon - Canthium/Psydrax oleifolium

flowering wattle in Priest

lovely flowering beefwood

bearded dragon Oolah

sheep in the sandhills P

who lives here ? P

bearded dragon or Oolah

Beewee goanna totem

insect eggs on scar WB

altered states - backbone for shelter WB

full flowering Budda

coolabah on the move A

Ow .. stumpy tailed goanna

broken hearted in Bimber

Nepine or barigan fruit H.P

termite tracks in sepia HP

abandoned sulky HP

eagle in sepia-moonal hole

Ruby on fallen scartree F1

twin towers of woodgrain

shy sand hill wallaby

big fallen doubles+dog TB

roos on the old riverbank

Nepine /Native passionfruit

old camp oven in Priest

old timer graveyard R

crazy twisted pine tree R

V.old rosewood bark R

debarked supplejack scar in the sandhills

prickly pear fruit - yum

black orchid on river country coolabah

2 faced north view + cubby

Jilda's sand goanna

scar on scar Kraka tank

farming black & white in Kraka

lightning strike shattered beefwood

WTF huts tree view 1

darling lily cultivation treat before eat

billabongs in Warrambool

armoured spider ? WB

coolamon in country WB

Tree beard at Gunnedah

fading old fireplace fella in drought

scartree down in country

coolabah on the move WB

charcoal rub revisited WB

big burn scar with warrambool high watermark

Belah tree lichen WB

window in your heart WB

old eagle trap in MW

supplejack circle AT in MW

BH pterodactyl nest (joke) in silver leaved ironbark

old scar new angle WB

Wilga (dhiil) in flower CB

BH nest construction site

I spy with my little eye

twister on boredrain tail out in Cumbul

moving sheep Kraka

fallen face scar Kraka

Eurah & caper butterflies

roadkill joeys on lawn

Wayaarra/ Warrior bush/ currant bush/ Apophyllum anomalum

stunning old coolamon TB

cracked face scar cut down for firewood

camouflaged huntsman

pimple wood in Kraka

Allan & grinding stone S

Allan scrub cutting but not this leopardwood

Looloo cools off in Cumbul

boredrain run out Cumbul

native passionfruit/ nepine

prickly pear ( bindiyaa )

Bambul/Bumble fruit

ganayanay ( supplejack )

mustering big sky country

caper butterfly/ngaybaan

leopardwood in flower

occupied fire scar Priest

scartree & guardian TB

seed pods on a quinine

dead scartree forest MW

mistletoe spider

scrub spider & treasures

kit & foxhole in Priest

branch coolamon on dead coolabah

Wayaarra - native grape

shifting sands of drought 2

shifting sands of drought 1

drought doesnt bother dead scartrees

coolamon & cattle P

shifting topsoil in drought

sand goanna in profile

drought roo freed

starving drought roo

old column cactus WG

Eurah dropping leaves in drought

scaly back skink

Milgee medicine tree in Myall

prickly pear & control - cochineal infestation

fireplace scar & wayaarra

old currant bush with berries

culturally modified tree TB

long term weathering TB

coral type weathering TB

Rain stone ( Ab. artefact )

Bumble TinT - 2nd oldest here

eagle nest Telinebone

Redgum reshoot TB

crazy firescar country

common Bumble fungus

coolabah twister revisited

Australian owlet-nightjar

looloo & under tree scar

big scars dominate the landscape

welcome stranger Keero

RT Boo ... scary scarring

RT unique "rung ring" tree

RT Emu poop-Emu bush

RT sandhill octopussy

Barwon river coolamon coolabahs with exposed roots

long necked turtles in tank

ducks over saltbush

BR scars in river country

BR Allan with old river scar

from swimming the river to walking the riverbed

Gingie goats from Goorie

young sand goanna

well camouflaged goanna

clay oven balls Goorie

sky cuts in Goorie

totem tree country

megafauna bones deposited here

Allan & riverbed ochre pit

long necked turtle shell

coolabah fish trap in Ginghet

FW Ginghet rain water run off only

FW scaley bark box tree

Bower bird nest with shells

snail shells in bower G

Roo's in Goorie

shells in WG waterholes

Budda regrowth after rain

fresh water shellfish WG

NB strange scars & true

what why & who ? Goorie

NB kero tin at campsite

NB huge Box root system

NB a standout in scarland

Tungra sandhill scars

CMT coolabah in Goorie

Pelicans on the boredrain

NB old campfire oven

weathered wood grain G

boat coolabah waiting for water

pterodactyl nest TB

Bambul - native orange G

old oven in Goorie

to be resurrected soon ...

GY very old Ring tree

GY cicada exoskeleton

only known Leafless cherry TinT

GY hearths/stoneworks

Looloo runs a tight show

sanctuary path home

frilled lizard at sanctuary

sanctuary eastern path

burl coolamon on billabong

culturally burnt tree unknown Avon

very hairy caterpillar

dead bogeye/shingle back

from feedlot to Bimber ...

flowering purple pea N

coolamon in the sky M

African invader WB

abandoned grinding stone

coolabah X bimble box WG

scartree hunt - Wallangilla

borers morse code - dot dot dash

Looloo, Ruby & Thumpa BC

2018 emu eggs - stinky !

GY old campfire oven

dry ewes thru Bottle camp drought crop

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

navigational ring - June solstice mid winter sun

A dead termite nest

RT scarship anchor

RT bower bird's treasure

RT Bower bird bower

..up jumped a swagman ...

Baan/ mistletoe

lignum flower(mirriraa) BC

Guri berry ( emu apple )

Rhonda Ashby wandering in Warrambool

ehretia membranifolia ( peach bush)

ngayuum/ paddy melons on Bimber crop

Cubby & old camp oven

wayaarra (currant bush)

drying billabong in drought

boredrain tail out in fog CB

A fuchia or mukrum shrub

A convoluted coolabah

Eenie, Meanie & Mo BC

A manipulated bilaarr tree

bagala/ leopardwood Ringtree country

A stone stockpile

A manipulated bimblebox

old oven in Avon

wildflowers Bottle camp

eternity.... leopardwood ring i Battle camp

2000 ewe weaners crossing Newtons

G grisly end for nannygoat

Allan in leopardwood Ring

Allan & ancient coolabah

L.R high & dry miner's boat

L.R axe sharpening grooves

G solid camp oven

me'n'bruce'n'allo'n'erica at leopardwood branch ring in Avon

G very sus. coolabah tree

G upside down Myall tree

scarred box tree dropping limbs in drought - cladoptosis?

Allan & emu track carving

G gurie apples - V.bitter

campsite country Cumbul

black orchid on coolabah P

drought whirly wind Kraka

manipulated coolabah CB

who lives here ? Goanna ? fox ?

A big old camp oven

G saltbush groundcover holding the soil together

Acacia & myall (Acacia pendula )

R cockatoo reshaped tree

R cockatoo bark peelings

G campfire country

these indentations are not natural !!!

Tony cutting whitewood biscuits to be aged at UNSW - still waiting 2 years later

blank (unfinished) axe head uncovered

RT scarface on scarface

RT scarface on scarface 2

RT burnt pine campsite

RT beautiful bald burl tree - unknown CMT

RT artefacts uncovered

Bogeyes love mulberries

G old Bowerbird nest

G massive black orchid on emu apple (guri)

flowering black orchid

when the river stops running there are still waterholes

Barwon river coolabahs dead & alive

Aboriginal made sandstone cement

the Prof. & giant coolabah

CS dying coolabah

BR black cockatoo feather

BH pterodactyl nest

trifecta - Ring Twist & Notch

Tungra scars in country

goanna of the day CB

BH new born goat triplets 2 dead

ironstone Brook hill

BH Indig. grinding stone

BH unknown rock grooves

BH unusual rock grooves

BH unusual rock imprints - fossils?

Guisely shearing shed 3

Guisely shearing shed 2

Guisely shearing shed 1

flowering bottle tree

lamb's tails/ Ptilotus exaltatus

flowering whitewood

BH ancient fire scarred landscape

BH dunno what this is?

BH serious vine lands

101 uses for coolamons ?

BH high temp. burnt rock - lightning or cultural?

G striped goanna close

G from wetter better times

G vertical striped goanna

mud nest, unknown bird

A corrugated kids canoe

G scavenging goanna

lambs on crop on 3" YTD

G Emu apples galore

sheep bred for wool not brains

one Ring to rule them all ..

Exocarpus aphyllus - leafless cherry

flowering Rosewood

G coolabah clump camp

shorn sheep heading home during drought

red sun over the sandhills in drought

Goanna on the run ...

smoke in the air at sunrise

failing tank Guiseley

dead carp stranded in drying tank - Guiseley

campsite in Wallangilla

striped goanna vertical

mustering Wallangilla in drought

Dorper invasion Wallangilla

dogs in drain in smoke haze

still life in dry billabong W

G big old campsite oven

Guisely goannas fatten on bogged agisted livestock

G campsite close up

Darling lily-Crinum flaccidum

goodbye Guiseley

me'n'dogs mustering in 2019 - tuff life in drought

Guiseley goanna in tank

campfire yoga tree with axcut P

Allo's cod tree in Walgett

Cubby & huge campfire baked clay oven

Ringtree special WB

RT warrumbool country

FW big camp oven

RT active Bower bird nest

fruiting fungi in Cumbul

Emubush (Eremophila longifolia)

fat goanna catching some winter warmth

Ringtree country

flowering thorny saltbush in stump

FW feral goat raised by Romanian backpackers

saltbush in boxtree P

typical dry sclerophyll forest - Ro & Jen

typical warrambool billabong

wildflowers in Cumbul

goanna on coolabah still life

occupied eagle nest WB

unknown water lilies Ration

Mistletoe - snotty gobbles

FW big old oven

T Pine & Peach bush camp

T big manipulated coolabah

love flowering eucalyptus

L sandhill waterhole the hub of life

mustering among the redgums TB

kangaroo grass & broad leaf hopbush pasture

CS very old very manipulated coolabah

Alectron oleifolius/ boonery/ rosewood

RT reclining scar at warrambool camp

FW coolabah camp

fish feasting site on the banks of the Barwon

The Barwon river at Boorooma

big barwon camp oven

BR Allo at the fishing hole

Allan & Kerry Flint at her energy spiral Cumborah

salt & pepper moth - Utetheisa pulhelloides

Cymbidium canaliculatum (Black Orchid)

Bogeye / shingleback

abandoned bower

the evil eye ... old goanna on the way out

unknown owl on gutter

Allan Tighe at Narran Lakes

Narran lakes main midden

NL camp oven stones

NL mussel shell/water bird bone midden

NL fragments of grind stone

NL small lake many campsites

NL old campfire

NL shell & bone middens

NL Allan at the main lake

Andrew O, removing bark.

AO using these tools

AO canoe - traditional tools/materials

AO fish trap in progress

AO boomerang in progress

AO's son chewing stringy bark fibre

AO making nets from stringy bark

3000 merino ewes in horse paddock

yarding up for crutching

Andrew & Ruby with the oldest coolabah

ceramic coolamon by Sooty Welsh Coonamble

Gomilaroi man Andrew Oldfield cutting coolamons

Yuranigh's carved burial tree, Molong

Wallangilla eagle branding

GGS eagle brand scar 2

Jen&Rowan Silcock with the totem tree G

Emu family trax

goanna up a box tree close

decaying wood patterns

Andrew Oldfield ochre turtle coolamon

Elders/Hydrologists visit

FW camp ovens 2

big fat goanna dreaming

2 surprised grey kangaroos

chick blown out of nest

T kidney weed (Dichondra) at the best old camps

supercamp sedge. ground cover carpet

Flying fox in fence - didnt know we had them?

Andrew Oldfield's stone axe

sunbaking sand goanna

vertical goanna

Too many takeaways ???

wood borer beetle

mustering in summer

fallen bees nest near the wedding arch TB

Dunguddy goanna

RT old campfire with stone works

RT eroded old stone works near warrambool

This bowerbird loves green!

Andrew O - ironwood(?) nulla nulla

FW oven on the Ginghet

KW axcut or borers?

KW axcut or wood borer scar

KW big pine fireplace

KW old oven & artefacts

wood patterns v.close P

flowering ironwood - Acacia excelsa

Parakeelya at Cumborah

Cumborah rock gully - natural subsidence ?

root distorting rocky soil Cumborah

C Allan & Kerry at fish scarred supplejack

horrific Hudson valley pear cactus infestation

Allan at cactus cochineal test site Cumborah

Hudson pear & Coolabah apple at Cumborah

unknown shrub at Cumborah

FW old Wailwun oven

FW Wailwun oven/campfire

nardoo in shallow billabong

FW camped by a billabong ...

Barwon in flood at sundown

Barwon flood waters over Brewon rd

unknown water lilly

pigeon cooling off

lovely groundcover at Cumborah

baan - snotty gobbles

Jen Silcock, Russell Fairfax & Rowan at Avon catchment

Stud paddock swamp

Thorny saltbush - Rhagodia spinescens

Cubby, coolamon & edible saltbush S

dragon lizard TB

Andrew Oldfield cuts a coolamon

myall (Acacia pendula) in flower

old rusty corrugated iron in Bottle camp

eagle's nest Warrambool

Major Mitchell cockatoos

fresh growth on fallen Supplejack

Hakea leucoptera

Only West of Walgett - coolamon tree draped in rosewood

toad in a hole in Telinebone

Yanga bush - Maireana brevifolia

yanga bush lasts weeks in a vase - very decorative

large cluster of emu eggs at Spillbury

family & friend at Narran Lakes open day 2021

Andrew Oldfield's new traditionally made axes

wood duck nesting in dead coolabah

old Wailwun oven

roos in the back paddock

unfortunately goats like to play trees ...

orange flowering fuchsia

fuchsia red & orange

some people cooked here a long time ago ...

twin leaf pig face

the archaeologist told Allan this isnt rock

dragon lizard out & about early

mobey barley going to head

needlewood flower

what's living in the Newton's peach bush cluster ?

biggest eagle nest near Cuddie springs as per legend

kangaroo grass - seed ground for flour

haha ha haha butt burls

bimblebox (Eucalyptus populnea)

wood borer infested bumble wood

west of Walgett - why would you live anywhere else?

the very hairy caterpillar ...

old disk plough weighted down with logs & blocks

manipulated bimblebox

leaf attack unknown insect

dead barn owl tangled in fence

native spinach/ warrigal greens growing in black box crotch

common sweet smelling herb - dunno its name

paper daisies for spring

Mistletoe/ snotty gobbles

Lysiana Amyema & Dendrophthoe species

this groundcover is found in some coolabah swamps

many things grow inside big broken off box trees

unevenly cut pine stumps suggest timber harvest for housing

Darling pea - poisonous

insect / spider eggs on Ironbark leaves P

insect/ spider eggs close up

dogs thru a coolabah Ringtree

eagle's nest at new camp in Warrambool

Warringaay = native carpet (sedge/nut grass)

where there is kidney weed 90% of the time there are TinTs

Aboriginal living carpet called warringaay

heaven on earth

native sedge carpet at camp - one of life's luxuries

Dichondra - the best camps have both groundcovers

flax lily (Dianella species) for dye & weaving baskets

ironwood crotch & nardoo I think

Lomandra species - for weaving bags nets traps

nardoo & nutgrass at a billabong

unknown nardoo (Marsilea species) aka bal

Galahs in a coolibah hollow

black swans on tank

flowering redgums

sedge/ nutgrass carpet

wallaby in Warrambool

moving sheep thru the sandhills in spring

red soil mound in black soil paddock - why?

burnt clay oven balls on mound - why is it red?

Rhagodia nutans /climbing saltbush (obviously)

Bog-eyes/ scaly backs on the prowl in spring

from coolamons to tin ...

the spar bath - Russell Fairfax says its a fire induced birthing pool

2 m circum. resprouts /epicormic shoots indicate 450 yrs old

more funny lichen

flowering Cassia

flowering Nepine

big old Wailwun oven

very big old Wailwun campfire/oven

very big old Wailwun goanna

ducks over a pond

old bent coolabahs form the frame for this dwelling - just add bark

young Gomeroi sand goanna

biggest bumble TinT in the world

Milgee/ Umbrella wattle - Nelia - VIP culturally

black orchards post flowering

Allo's new rare artefact + stone egg

flowering lignum flowering again

prickly pear/ Opuntia stricta/ bindiyaa

the fruit of the noxious prickly pear is yummy (remove bristles first)

belah tree cones

eagle nest in Avon

eagle nest close - unoccupied atm

decomposing coolabah "giving" tree feeds new growth

An old shelter at Psydrax camp, 2nd sandhill Telinebone

stone axe cut timber for camp construction

bower bird nest in Telinebone

this bower bird nest is current

bush pot plants common in wet seasons TB

some people love it west of Walgett ... Celeste Russell

Many thousands of Gomeroi people have rested here like Kit the kelpie

wood borer/ termite/ beetle ? tracks on GDR smooth barked gum

flowering lignum (eremophila polyclada)

deliberately bent box tree on Moorie billabong

a dozen different native fruit trees in this cluster near the old wells TB

summer wildflowers TB

love these guys ...

Darling lilies are back. With onion size bulbs they fed many people

dhaygalbaarrayn (split head) aka Crinum flaccidum

these look a bit like convolvulus?

take a walk on the wild side ...

old coolabah matriarch on the natural water catchment on Avon

mistletoe on the same catchment

Old Aboriginal well on neighbouring property

manipulated coolabahs on the billabongs

Wilcannia lily - Calostemma purpureum

not a guest but found among them but a type of coolabah mistletoe

varied artefacts at Cuddie springs - no naturally occurring rock

deep wailwun billabong with wilga in black box TinT in foreground

shallow drying back billabong

giant sized bush spider with eggs

spiders everywhere now but this one is exceptionally big

uncommon native hibiscus found all around the house camp

old oven in Avon

red kangaroo coming through Tungra

the red kangaroo is a powerful Gomeroi totem

Dichondra ( kidneyweed ) camp carpet Tungra

strange fungus growing on box trunk

shallow extended nardoo swamp - spores ground up & made into damper T

major mitchells I presume ...

kidney weed at one of the many Tungra camps

some insect rolls up box tree leaves to make a nest

thorny saltbush living the high life 20 ft up

Tungra scarscape 1

leaf eating caterpillar trail

autumn wildflowers

the trees & bushes are strewn with these spiders

mustering Stud among the flowering lignum

I dont know the name of this butterfly?

more wildflowers

eagles nest Boree

i dont like spiders much but they beautiful against a blue sky

old bones tied on a box tree at Tungra

Probably used as fox/ wild pig bait to attract & poison them

mother & baby spider hitching a ride with me

the rosewood Ringtree signals this important Tungra billabong

dorpers on the old tank in Antigar

I think these birds were pelicans?

big coolabah & peach bush understory at Bobs camp

Bobs camp carpet - kidney weed (Dichondra repens)

Bobs camp carpet - sedge aka nutgrass (Cyperus fulvus or Cyperus clarus)

I dont know the names of different butterflies

leaf miner damage

la Nina years - luv em

kelpies in the wet ...

old wailwun oven

ruby saltbush aka burra aka Enchylaena tormentosa

ruby & thorny saltbush - edible berries & leaves

pelicans arrived in the drought & some chose to stay on

who moved the goal posts?

budda tree oven or fire stick harvesting

leaf curl in quinine

native mint like ground cover - unknown

mistletoe along a boxtree trunk

something funny going on here ...

common winter wild flower

seesaw on billabong- many people travelled thru here to the Narran lakes

another dead pelican?

flax lilies - edible fruit & roots & fibrous leaves nets & clothing etc

Jenny Peters/ Riley & Kaylene Hall at the bumble memorial tree

a full Ginghet is a delight for the eyes

plenty of winter daisies

and funny wooly burrs

waterways are also pathways. Some Wailwun people camped here

water views on the Ginghet

Kit in the nardoo patch near the very old peach bush camp

I dont know the name of this yellow daisy.

all the good waterholes on the warrambool have bent down branches

shallow warrambool channel filled with rain water not flood water

Darling pea aka Swainsona greyana - poisonous to stock

can you see the major mitchell cockatoo in the Punty bush?

wilga TinT surrounded by Darling lillies & dichondra at the sanctuary

these darling lilies have been planted here by the gomeroi

They do not grow in sand naturally - they have been 'translocated'

there was a camp here as indicated by the bent coolabahs - just add bark

welcome home - remnant redgum sanctuary on the paleochannel

big occupied eagles nest in a whitewood tree

mother of all ovens on the Ginghet

pine sapling harvesting at Ginghet camp for shelter or fire sticks?

paper daisies out in force

Ginghet flood plain - coolabahs can handle wet feet occasionally

budda in box with the dead host feeding the live guest - wallangilla

wheat crops groaning with grain - but will la nina let us harvest them?

foxtails & other native grains abundant too

Junction of Kamilaroi highway, Gingie rd & Gingie village rd

local shearing team heading home after work ..Dangar bridge

best ever wheat crops drowning west of Walgett

windrowed canola submerged on the flood plains

looking west over the Walgett showground mid Nov 2022

wild oranges/ bumble/ Capparis mitchellii with domesticated orange

Xerochrysum bracteatum (thanks Jen)

weaning the xbred lambs

foreground - native grass seed background - wheat crop

butter bush in dead box TinT 2020

Butter bush TinT no more. Aka Gumbie gumbie

TinT no more with stranded asset (root)

grounded eagle in Stud

Bottle camp camp - Bottle camp being paddock name ...

barley hay bales in BonBon 2022 harvest

this old sand goanna is doing fine despite his disability ...

bimblebox/ poplar box leaf showing insect attack

coolabah with a type of mistletoe or infected branch?

hard to show how big some sandhill trees are without reference points

you can see the tree size in relation to my foot ...cant take dogs on the neighbours

long abandoned bower

the unloved cross-hatched bark slab 150 X 30 cm

another big blown out base - coolabah I think

I think this maybe a curlew?

Kamilaroi man Andrew Oldfield - AEO from Tahmoor Sydney

water bird nest on natural water catchment Avon

Another nest belonging to some large water bird species

mulliyan (eagle) nest - occupied

This goanna cracked me up - full of carp from the Ginghet

As the floodplain dries fish get stranded in the waterholes - not wasted!

coolabah on the move - notice the barkless branch ends?

strange pock marked wood on a dead Ginghet eucalyptus

another black wattle in a black box this time - important culturally

big old camp oven on the Ginghet - Wailwun feasting

top view - how many cod or yellowbelly were cooked here I wonder?

another nearby cooking site - much younger

top view - could be a termite nest perhaps?

half burnt half buried sticks - younger fireplace again

nearby tin with wire handle - replaced the wooden coolamons

wood flaps on fallen coolabah Ginghet edge

abandoned water bird nest in the middle of the Ginghet shows flood level

bimblebox reshoots - tough mudder

Luke Farr showing bush tucker- Gomilaroi man from Walgett community college

Dichondra at the Marra paleochannel sandhill - camp carpet

old kero tin with handle - replaced the wooden coolamon

half buried shovel head & split stone

surprisingly after 6 month of bugga all rain this billabong still has water

shrinking billabong along the Marra ck paleochannel

Major Mitchell mob in Nardoo paddock

Atlas holding up the world ....

big gaping wound scar taking out a third of the boxtree

climbing saltbush -Einadia/ Rhagodia nutans

water erosion is caused by soil compaction from past overstocking

erosion is now being remedied by ponding earthworks

this is a distant view of a peach bush camp with a reliable billabong

this is what the camp looks like inside the massive old P.b cluster

occupied eagle's nest along the Warrambool

close up of same

well used broken old grindstone - too heavy to carry with you

some river-less river reeds on Billybingbone rd

Priscilla says they are for "necklaces/ adornments"

something has made a home with these grass seedheads

climbing saltbush aka Einadia nutans covered in fruit

Its so hot in summer out here the trees melt!

years ago the Northern hairy nosed wombat lived here - now only foxes

possums & goannas live inside not under big old eucalypt lignotubers

limestone rock at Ginghet ck /Billybingbone rd intersection

Closest limestone deposit would be about 300 ks away

white ants feasting on flooded timber along the Ginghet

This is what their nest looks like inside ..

Goannas eat termites & come in yellow & black stripes like this

Or yellow & dark green spots & bands like this. They lay eggs in termite mounds too

remains of oven or campfire Cumberdoon way

nardoo at Carinda rd songline TinT cluster

too high to catch for dinner?

coolabah mistletoe spider

carpet snake out & about

bimble box in flower despite the raging drought

weird black box in the TCS

surprised grey kangaroos

emus eating boobialla berries - Cumberdoon way

I call these tree spiders but they are really just dead mistletoe

bright white patches of web on an old eucalypt - stunning!

mad manipulated rosewood in Merrywinebah

the most prominent colours are yellow & purple

opportunistic 'best' life west of Walgett

Mitchell grass - Astrebla pecinata - ganalay

lightning strike on a box tree

lightning strike on the lolly pop CMT - trunk die back underway

hopefully the 'lollipop' will survive as this trunk did not take a direct hit

single pink flower in the nature reserve

lizard in Nardoo - you only see them if they move

old camp 'oven' in the Ginghet nature reserve

leopardwood's are wacky west of Walgett

burnt pine stump & artefact in the neighbours sand slice

somebody burnt something here a long time ago

mitchell grass in the natural clearing in Avon

monstrous coolabah between the Xfence & the sand slice

currant bush berries - ripe when black

black orchid - Cymbidium canaliculatum

this massive coolabah is living on a clay pan not the sand slice

unusual sand slice grass

cypress pine bark patterns

this style of birthing tree is often found at the camps

another big girl on the neighbours

this coolabah is not so old but has the makings of a camp tree

failed TinT or camp dunny at the Wilga Vale house camp GNR

called epiparasitism - natural or the work of the old clever people?

black orchid - Cymbidium canaliculatum - garrii

massive expanding coolabah Wee Wally

wood borers under the bark

Nepine - Capparis lasiantha - ripe now

dead mistletoe tree spider

this mistletoe is Amyema miquellii I think - a partial parasite.

there is another mistletoe (Lysian subfalcata) living on this one

Epi-parasitism or by design? The master manipulators or birds?

big girls live west of Walgett. Coolabahs are female Im told

some grow reshoots like whiskers or a razor back pig - lol

2 views of same nest - caterpillars?

eagle (mulliyon) in Bimber

this is the carpet snake who has been eating my chickens

this is my eco-friendly bio control - juvenile kookaburra

And this is murru-manaarr the dragonfly this land was named for

coolamon upgrade

one of the biggest eagle nests Ive ever seen - Avon

Stapelia gigantea or carrion plant is naturalised here

aka Star flower - found around Lightning ridge & Cumborah - not native

kero tins with wire handles common on Wilga vale GNR

some weilwun cooked food here a long time ago

here too - probably eating game away from the Ginghet

toy car at the old Wilga vale tip (squashed)

old fireplace with charcoal still visible

another old fireplace - unexpected colours of the bush

patches of lichen where the sun dont shine ... thick scrub in the GRN

broken cast iron cooking pot along the boredrain in Wilga vale

I remember this old car along the boredrain - before the tree fell on it

4 views of the Binder & Reaper from Minoru made by sunshine

Miners bucket? Cumborah

someone has removed the central trunk & replaced it with an old dog?

box reshoot fail

epicormic shoots of a remnant redgum - older than Jesus?

lovely lichen on bark - colours of the bush vary thru the seasons

termites under cypress pine bark - natural defences

the 'smoker revisit - showing the way to the Narran lakes

Looloo & the dead giant - Wallangilla camp

coolabah leaf nests - 2 views

myall shelter frame - extensive manipulation needed to shape this tree

front view - just add bark sheeting to these myall ridge poles

this dead box is very old & well used - Gali gurranaa camp

old oven on Ginghet

early daisies on the Ginghet

bower bird at kitchen window

West of Walgett ....

meeting places now & then, black & white

the hazards of Cumborah CMT hunting - opal mines & cactus

gali birraa & guest lizard - water in whitewoods for fauna?

not sure what kind of animal was kept here? A very quiet one presumably ...

very old coolabah camptree in the Ginghet

black box camptree higher up

red gum camp in McDonald's sunken sandhill

dragon lizard catching the rays

Googarh the Goanna - from Katie Langloh Parker

once this was a significant waterhole west of the Ginghet

someone cooked up something here a long time ago

I dunno what this ant bed pebbly stuff is but its often found at camps

give me a home below the gum trees ...(coolabah actually)

this Balonne water hole (QLD) has never been known to dry up

home to the biggest coolabah Ive ever seen - everything is bigger in QLD!

Probably the biggest culturally scarred tree in the world ...

this dragon lizard owns this canker tree

some insect calls this leopardwood home

echidnas are out in force as are all the natives ..

spots & stripes should never be seen without goanna guts in between

Steve & Chris Hopper under the wedding arch in Telinebone

The old coolabah matriarch - waiting for her people ...

Can-Am SXS & work colleagues - Cubby & Batman

the 'old clever' people cooked here many years ago

bearded dragon catching the early morning rays

2 more views - the throat of this lizard is bright yellow

goat in tree - West of Walgett - strange but true

that burnt soil indicates an old cooking place, as do the artefacts

wrangling feral goats - not for beginners ...

the hazards of ringlock

just going about their day ...

big bent box looking over the southern plains of the Cumborah foothills

Carinda dragon lizard

bustard (Ardeotis australis) numbers surge West of Walgett

scartree hunting - funner with friends ...

the biggest of the BFCs on the Ginghet flood plain south of the BBB rd

Ive seen some BFCs before (Big F*** Coolabahs) before but this is humungous

carp in the Marra - the plague of the inland waterways

little apricot coloured mud nest

the leopardwood TinT in Stud paddock has a guardian

birthing tree in the ridges

abandoned bower bird nest Nardoo camp

wailwun woz here

Eastern Shrike-tit living in the GNR

2 views of a manipulated coolabah on the GNR - not natural no way

there used to be a dirty great box tree trunk where my hat is now

empty birds egg on a grinding stone in the ridges

they didnt have far to carry them thats for sure

how's this for camouflage

& dont forget to look down occasionally

in these 2 views you see the big coolamon scar & the grinders at the base

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