lee wrote on Apr 29
th, 2019 at 6:56pm:
John Smith wrote on Apr 29
th, 2019 at 6:18pm:
I would have thought that no wind is preferable when back burning
No when back burning you want to burn into the wind.
So True Lee.
My crime in my youth was to be an
Arsonist
.
I would set many a bush on fire.
I was 'fire-farming' at the age of just 7. Getting older, 'we' moved further afield. But there was one 'sacred spot', that we kept burnt permanently. Forever charred, we called it
"The Black Man's Land". <enter eerie music>
It was a place in Western Sydney.
The Back-Burning in question was purposely done as a
'Welcoming Smoking Ceremony"
passed down from the now 'lost' Eora people of Sydney.
[edit] Btw - I'm 'Reformed' now, as a Scuba Diver; always around, near or underwater. Never know when those Troopers might show up and chase me into a Billabong for stealing some Squatter's wife.