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a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:50 am
by Larry
The Richmond River is poisoned with rank freshwater, drums of fertiliser, spilt diesel, sewerage, mud and town runoff … the waves are breaking in rancid water, the beaches littered with timber and dead fish, a couple of jewfish the size of an overweight man, slowly deflating, their distended stomachs almost ready to burst.
Silver bream, mullet, catfish, small sharks, tailor, flathead, trevally, blackfish, toadfish all white and ballooning and covered with spikes looking like something you could hang off a Christmas tree.
Everything stinks.
Seagulls too used to fresh to bother picking apart the days-old carcasses, sand crabs almost too wary to spot as they disappear into their holes holding gobbets of decomposed fish in their claws and further down the beach a walking platoon of black crows comes your way. Slowly. Stopping and stooping here and there before walking closer, unafraid, sleek, well-fed, confident.
They only take the eyeballs. And there’s hundreds of dead fish without them today.
Like oysters, Sightless. Liquid. Viscous. Putrid.
Pluck.
A banquet.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:17 am
by Yuke Hunt
Thats one hell of a tourist brochure !
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:54 am
by offshore1
What are the real estate prices like?
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 12:07 pm
by Larry
Not as juicy as Lennox Head. Byron’s a tragedy and Mullumbimby a tough choice, Avalon needs help and the back of Bangalow has gone nuts.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:50 pm
by Beanpole
Yuke Hunt wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:17 am
Thats one hell of a tourist brochure !
Decomposing carcasses in front of expensive beach front dwellings.
Reminds me of finding a dead seal on the beach at Rincon.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:58 pm
by bobjs
Not really
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:00 pm
by Beanpole
A group of crows is called a Murder of Crows.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:00 pm
by bobjs
Stop it
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:02 pm
by Beanpole
You were going so well too bobjs
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:04 pm
by bobjs
Arg
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:24 pm
by Larry
I’m watching a bloke carving off a chunk of 4 day old dead fish before putting it on his hook and casting out … thinking he’ll need acid to wash the stink off his hands tonight.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 1:10 am
by alakaboo
Sounds like murder.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 4:03 am
by offshore1
Speaking of stink, a humpback whale washed up on the deserted island just south of here coupla days ago.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 8:38 am
by steve shearer
It's gunna take a while this time Larry.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 8:55 am
by Thud
offshore1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 4:03 am
Speaking of stink, a humpback whale washed up on the deserted island just south of here coupla days ago.
I hope he finds a Wilson.
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:33 pm
by Skipper
Larry wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:50 am
The Richmond River is poisoned with rank freshwater, drums of fertiliser, spilt diesel, sewerage, mud and town runoff … the waves are breaking in rancid water, the beaches littered with timber and dead fish, a couple of jewfish the size of an overweight man, slowly deflating, their distended stomachs almost ready to burst.
Silver bream, mullet, catfish, small sharks, tailor, flathead, trevally, blackfish, toadfish all white and ballooning and covered with spikes looking like something you could hang off a Christmas tree.
Everything stinks.
Seagulls too used to fresh to bother picking apart the days-old carcasses, sand crabs almost too wary to spot as they disappear into their holes holding gobbets of decomposed fish in their claws and further down the beach a walking platoon of black crows comes your way. Slowly. Stopping and stooping here and there before walking closer, unafraid, sleek, well-fed, confident.
They only take the eyeballs. And there’s hundreds of dead fish without them today.
Like oysters, Sightless. Liquid. Viscous.
Putrid.
Pluck.
A banquet.
opening title sequence for Mourning The Earth
Re: a platoon of crows
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:21 pm
by Larry
….. and there, by the shoreline and almost overcome by the incoming tide a corroboree frog, alive, waiting to be picked up and settled by the freshwater showers at the northern end.