09 September, 2020

Wintjiribin to Ngoonungi (the cold windy to becoming warm) - a.k.a. "Spring"

I'm going to adopt the Dharawal calendar for the seasons, I think. They've been here tens of thousands of years, if not longer, and while the climate is definitely changing, I think the shift in mentality is better than the calendar seasons from the northern hemisphere. Yes, the Dharawal are a little south of here - south side of the Harbour - but there aren't records of the Kuringai peoples here. So, according to the Dharawal, we're currently in Ngoonungi (cool, getting warmer) and the time of Murrai'yunggory — a time of bats/flying foxes? Makes sense looking out my window where we've got a light cool rain happening...

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