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Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:20 am
by Lucky Al
At Lennox for example?
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:22 am
by steve shearer
I think a testing/initiation system, such as the one that Bundjalung elders used to use here at Lennox, would be a beautiful idea.
If you fail, you leave.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:27 am
by Lucky Al
Fail a steep take-off on Iggy's minimal?
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:28 am
by Lucky Al
What are the Bundjalung elders up to these days? Did it work out?
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:35 am
by steve shearer
Not really, they got shipped off to missions and pommy social climbers who can't surf own all the expensive real estate.
Well, the wives can surf baby food, the blokes all stay up late watching premier league and walking around the next day with hangovers and hangdog expression.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:44 am
by Lucky Al
Have they built up that headland yet? That magical place really needs a suburb on top of it. Add to the history and mystique of the place.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:45 am
by Drailed
Ok so what's Bribie got going for it? strong Pine trees. Nice one.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:09 pm
by steve shearer
This unabashed philistinism is actually one of your more attractive qualities Loof.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:15 pm
by offshore1
That and his seafarin tales of daring do.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:48 pm
by Drailed
I am not here to fcck around Steve, I tell it how it is.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:03 pm
by Slobadan Madicubich
steve shearer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:30 am
You silly pedantic old bugger, you missed the salient point of the whole thing.
Which is, how could the same driftwood still be in the same place from a photo taken likely in the 60's until now?
The answer is the Bribie Pine, Callitris sp. A native conifer with chemical compounds that render the wood incredibly impervious to decay. At that particular location, as well as on large areas of Bribie there are stands of Bribie Pine. It loves sandy soils and there is strong evidence that traditional aboriginal cool temp fire management was conducive to Callitris development.
Don Watson, in his excellent book The Bush, waxes lyrical for some time about the incredible properties and uses of Callitris sp, which is found all over Aus, except Tas.
Seriously, what a bunch of clueless tourists white people are in Australia. Still, after 200 years we've got no fcuking idea.
So it probably grew died & fell over on that spot
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:17 pm
by steve shearer
Hard to say Slob.
It could have been knocked over in a storm or cyclone, either there or at another location and washed up there.
It could have fallen over as a result of an undercut bank from a storm surge.
Who knows.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:20 pm
by Drailed
Jesus christ, it's just a fcckn dead tree.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:30 pm
by Yuke Hunt
Its a fallen tree. Which begs the question ...
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:34 pm
by alakaboo
Given the shoreline of Southern Bribie has shifted around by 30-40m over the last 50 years due to cycles of erosion and accretion, the chance of it being the same tree is diabolically small.
What can the local indigenous people teach us about talking romantic whimsy out our arse, Steve?
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:39 pm
by ctd
Lucky Al wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:19 am
Are you saying we whities blow-ins should stop dropping in on the locals and go home Steve?
no drop-ins in a wave pool
just saying
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:46 pm
by Lucky Al
Have the barbaric lives of the black natives of Bribie been civilized yet? Have the black natives been taught to kneel and not steal yet? If they I haven't I might feel a bit nervous leaving my surfy board lying around.
Re: Bribie Island Board Riders
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:50 pm
by steve shearer
alakaboo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:34 pm
Given the shoreline of Southern Bribie has shifted around by 30-40m over the last 50 years due to cycles of erosion and accretion, the chance of it being the same tree is diabolically small.
While that is true, particularly the area from Buckleys Hole around to the surf beach ......further north, from the jetty, there is a permanent ledge of coffee rock which stabilises the coastline.
This is most evident where Fairweather is standing, which is at Whitepatch. You can clearly see the coffee rock slabs and the coffee rock ledge seaward of where he is standing.
Just behind him are mature forests of Callitris and Angophora, no way those have been altered in 50 years. Some of the trees would be hundreds of years old.
The jetty, by the way, was built in 1912 and is still in the original position.