TALES ALONG THE PIG TRAILS.

03-03-2008

 

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I love listening to our wild cousins' stories of the adventures they've had along their trails.

Sometimes they've been in great danger, like the times they raided the local tall ones' vegetable gardens and were nearly killed by them and their dogs. Many mornings we saw them  running back before it was even light. But they're very brave and were never put off.

Other times they see really interesting things. One time, after a bushfire burnt everything around us, they saw hundreds of huge fire birds that stayed here for a week or so and then vanished to wherever they'd come from. They say they were so big that their open wings would have covered three grandpa Orffs standing snout to tail! We just saw a huge black cloud of them circling around us once and then mum pushed us into the house in case they wanted to eat us piglets.

I gave my camera to one cousin to take photos on one of their outings and here they are. I was very excited to see where they go.  

                

        Here they're setting off. They follow the same paths every time and so make trails in the bush. They walk in single file so that their trails are narrow.        

                    

       They have to be alert to any danger... especially after raiding the vegetable gardens! If they see something suspicious they snort to warn the others, put their tails in the air and hoof-it! 

          

Here's their mudhole which is full of water up to it's banks in the rainy season. There's a Hadidah nest in the tree next to it with twenty Hadidahs sleeping there at night. 

      

Leading up to the mudhole is a dried river bed. In the rainy season it gushes with water so that it roars like a giant waterfall. Lots of finch nests hang on a tree there. (They say you can tell how high the water will be when the rain comes by how high the nests are.) There are also some strange holes in the bank - who knows what lives there....

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