Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
Is that its name: Polygonum? So off I go to look up the meaning ... "Any of numerous plants of the widely distributed genus Polygonum, characterized by stems with knotlike joints and conspicuous sheathlike stipules".
ReplyDeleteSo is this a Joan-name or an official name? I really do not understand that entire sentence that I copied from the dictionary!
It is the official name and I don't remember seeing any plants of that description there.
DeleteThe bird life must have been amazing. And I've never seen a gum like that before.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell one gum from another ... other than that how they look different. It annoys me that I can't name them.
DeleteOh that first shot is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI want to be there right now - right on the banks of that billabong.
Hey, maybe that's a Coolibah tree?
Yeh maybe ... after all they are down by a billabong.
DeleteGreat bird capture.
ReplyDeleteFantastic capture of the cormorant in the beautiful billabong! Love this post.
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