Trad Gang
Trad Gang Highlights => Highlights 2009 => Topic started by: Benny Nganabbarru on November 08, 2009, 07:44:00 AM
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Whoops-a-daisy. It's my first go at this sort of thing. I've made the slideshow, it's on photobucket, and now I'm trying to figure-out how to post a link to it without leaving my photobucket account open to any marauding mischief-makers. If anyone has any advice on how to post it, please PM me. Sorry for the hassle. Mods, please feel free to delete until I get my act together. Cheers, Ben
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Here is the video that Ben was trying to get up here, he asked me to host this for him and I said sure :D
This is a rather large file (70 Meg), so it may be easier for you to right click the link below and "Save As" so that you don't have to wait for it to buffer...
A year in the Outback of Australia (http://www.pixofnature.com/videos/tradgang/benkleinig.wmv)
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What a fantastic show !! You guys did a great job.
Were all the cattle and ox wild? Were any of the snakes in the pictures poison?
What fantastic looking wild country.
You guys are blessed to have a place like this to hide in :)
I for one can't wait for next years show......
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wow, good job!
ohh man, gottta get down there soon!
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Thanks for going to the trouble of posting this Ben,
I can almost smell the eucalyptus, 'Caerns table lands' were the furthest up the coast I got.
Great pics and great counrty!
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Thanks so much for helping me with this, Kevin. I really appreciate it.
Those particular cattle were wild, and the first snake, the brown, is one of our most poisonous. The brightly-coloured one isn't poisonous, I think, or not much, anyway. I'm pretty sure that one's a tree snake. Usually, if they're in trees, they're fine; if they're down on the ground, they're baddies.
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Ben, Thanks for sharing. That is perhaps one of the coolest series of pics I've seen on this site. Makes me want to visit.
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Oly bow,a lot of fun Over Under
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That was cool Ben, I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing.
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That was awesome Ben! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
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Thanks for sharing...
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Well done mate .... a year goes by so quickly !
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Very nice Ben. Glad your hear
doug77
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Outstanding! Great job, thanks for sharing. Sam.
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Great piece there Ben! Thanks for sharing.
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Well done!
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That was great brother! Nice stuff!
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Very cool. Thanks.
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Very cool Ben, very cool.
Cheers
Wayne
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Awesome piece of footage. :archer:
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did you eat the donkey?
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Nope, PJ, we don't eat donkeys. The pigs made short work of him, though. We tried to time an ambush off the carcass, but missed the rendezvous.
Well, another highlight of our traditional bowhunting year took place today. Dave and I left town at 0400, and went out to check some swamps and creeks for pigs. It really was a bit of a bonus weekend, as anyday now the rains will arive, and scatter all the feral animals for the next five months. Anyway, Dave shot a sow with his 60# Tomahawk longbow and cedars tipped with Magnus broadheads. It was his first traditional bowkill; finally, after all that effort and practice, it paid-off for him! I'm stoked for him. Here's the picture:
(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l164/b_kleinig/IMG_0586.jpg)
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Awesome job Ben! Where are the crocs?
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i was just wondering why you would kill a donkey that is all, they arent good for anything else
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We kill them because there are five million of these introduced pests in our country, and their small hooves tear the fragile topsoil up, which then erodes in wind and rain. This destroys the homes of our little native animals, like quolls and kangaroo rats, etcetera. Further, five million donkeys is a lot of competition for our native animals, which are becoming rarer and rarer, in some cases close to extinction, because of the animals our European ancestors introduced here a hundred to two-hundred years ago. We only hunt these introduced animals in Australia. In some parts where native kangaroos are abundant and are over-running farmland, farmers can apply for tags to cull these, but that is done with rifle only. Recreational hunting is only for the introduced animals. Because they are such a huge ecological problem, and because of difficulties with heat, distance and inaccessibility, we don't have laws about utilising meat, because it is, in most cases, impossible to do so, and yet the need is still there to limit their growth.
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Pitbull, most waterways in northern Australia have either freshwater crocodiles or saltwater crocodiles or both. The salties are the baddies, and live in both fresh and salt water, which goes to show that you just can't trust them, seeing they call themselves salties in an attempt to trick you into thinking freshwater is safe. The one in the photo was, thankfully, a larger freshy. Freshies are pretty harmless.
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i didnt mean anything by it ben, was just curious sir. id like to kill them here in the u.s.
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Hey Ben not a bad put together there some nice photos there as well.Old slim has a place in your heart somewhere there I think,
Cheers Wayno
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Fantastic, Ben. Thanks for sharing!
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Awesome Ben, great pics, makes me wanna get back out there. thanks for sharing
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Northern Ben
as always ...well done mate . great stuff . and well done to Dave on his sow ... good hog with a nice bow .
what now the rains have come ?
sambar hunting is the answer !!!
Southern Ben
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Great slides looks like you had a lot of fun
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That was great, thank you.
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Fantastic as always!!!
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Oh Man!!! That was awesome!!! Well done on all accounts Ben, just outstanding. Thanks for taking to time to put that together for us to enjoy!
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Very nice Ben...thanks for sharing!
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very cool, you hunt some animals that we definitely don't have around here.
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I'm glad you liked the slideshow, fellows. When I made it, I didn't think there would be anymore hunting opportunities for the year, but the rains seem to be just a little later. Today I was blessed with the taking of this boar (thread on PowWow with more details).
(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l164/b_kleinig/CroppedBoar.jpg)
Cheers,
Ben
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It's been a heck of a week - our most successful week of local bowhunting ever; today, Dave shot a beauty of a boar, which was his first with a traditional bow, again his 60# Tomahawk, cedar arrows and, this time, Tusker broadheads. There was rain at the station yesterday, so time really is running-out.
(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l164/b_kleinig/IMG_0609.jpg)
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WOW! What a great slideshow. I admire the disapline it takes to bring a camera everywhere and actually use it.
Bic
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:clapper: great work ben one day i will learn how to do that on a computer.
gotta love slim dusty
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Hey Ben, what happens during the rainy season?? Does everything flood out and move the animals?
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That was pretty cool!
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G'day Kevin,
Yep, in the wet season, the entire northern quarter of Australia turns into a lush, green swampland. All the rivers and creeks are full, and sometimes struggle to dump the excess water into the ocean (that's when we get floods). Any minor depression or valley becomes a water course. Because of this, the animals are able to scatter. The pigs are continually travelling during this time, with no boundaries or territory or pattern, and it is unlikely that they'll visit the same place twice. Usually we only see there tracks, although very, very occasionally, we bump into one. More often than not, it is as though the pigs don't exist, except for the damage they leave behind, digging the place up. Donkeys, thankfully, keep to more of a territory, even during the wet, which gives us motivation to venture out.
Cheers,
Ben
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Yea i really like that.
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man ,that looks like some gorgeous yet dangerous country,looks fun.hey ben you rock.
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NICE!!!