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
That might depend on what ammumnition you use.
ReplyDeleteMy ammo -- Olympus E500.
ReplyDeleteHm, I do not understand this at all: who writes this in white paint on some rocks? He? Now this is quite exotic for my European mind ...
ReplyDeleteMartina, actually the rules on the official sign were "No stopping, no passing, no shooting". So the sign writer was just mirroring the thoughts of the "management".
ReplyDeleteCountry lads like to go out at night in trucks mounted with spotlights and shoot kangaroos, foxes and rabbits. Given that there are camp sites all along this river that would be extremely dangerous.
Australia has very strict gun laws so in general it is only farmers and the like that have them. Other than in the rural areas there is not a culture of gun ownership at all. No shooting signs only ever appear in rural areas.
Hm, but couldn't they have done a nice graffitti instead?
ReplyDeleteAnd I read "No sooting" which doesn't make any sense at all, ;-)
In Germany the gun laws are even more restrictive I suppose - so there are no opportunities for "No shooting" signs.