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What are the sounds you associate with bushwalking?

Snapping of sticks signals a campfire

A recent one in Abercrombie NP was the tweeting of at least 5 different small bird species at dawn, right around my tent in the shrubbery.

Sweet as.

Sound? What is that?
*struggles to remember*

The sound of bushwalking ? "OH FOR *&%$#! SAKE" is a nice one, after sliding on mud or ice.

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No vehicles, no talking

The clip clip of a big roos toes taking off

The gentle creak of my pack.

On a busy trail - the click-clack of walking poles of a group about to overtake me.

The delightful nothingness.

OR

the sounds of our favourite "hiking anthems".

Favourites include:

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.... not sure why

The Lonely Goatherd - great song for climbing hills

and probably some others that I wouldn't admit to.

The sheer pleasure of the sound of silence.
Something not found elsewhere or seldom at least.

As much as one doesn't like rain when bush, the sound of gentle rain on a japara tent when snug in the bag, is something I'll never forget.

Currawongs. As maligned as they are its a pleasant sound to my ears and a reminder that I'm currently embedded in my beloved bush.

Neo wrote:A recent one in Abercrombie NP was the tweeting of at least 5 different small bird species at dawn, right around my tent in the shrubbery.

Sweet as.

What phone were they tweeting with?


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On a serious note, you can’t beat the sound of rain on your tarp / tent when you’re inside warm and dry for the night!


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1/ The chugga chugga, puff puff of my meditative uphill momentum.

2/ The rumble of rocks bumping along the bed of a river rising up through my boots.

3/ The internalisation experienced as rain smashes into my gore-tex while I slop and sludge my way along the rutted mudsludgeslipslide of a sw track.

4/ The sound of an exploding grin, experienced hearing the exultant expression of a fellow walker as they take in indescribable beauty(that's a noise I've heard you make nnw, makes all the scrub bashing and cursing worthwhile )

5/ The low, barely perceivable hum of the Earth pushing through space while sitting alone atop a remote mountain, a clear and still night, SW Tasmania.

6/ Wind in trees, waves breaking on the fatal shore etc etc etc

The music of the birds, some so tiny they have to move before my wonky old eyes can even see them.
The crackle of twigs under my feet.
The whisper of a breeze in Sheoaks.

That involuntary sound you make when you slam on the brakes to avoid stepping on a snake.

The occasional sound of a tree falling somewhere in the bush at night.

The drip-drip-drip of the camping overhang that just won't let you fall asleep.

The different sounds the water makes as it heats up in the billy - fizzing, hissing, then eventually ebbulating.

The swish swish sound as material of my long pants rub against each other - maybe I need to loose weight around the thighs.

Huuuum of millions of insects on a still, hot & humid summers day...
Screeeching Red tailed black cockatoo's as they head down the valley...
Slithering snakes through the dry leaf litter...
Kookaburra's territorial morning calls...

The primal scream of a non bushwalker finding their 1st leech or tick attached to their body...

Speaking of songs in the bush, why is it always the worst songs that get stuck in your head while you're hiking?

My last trip, I had some song from the band Westlife going over and over - I didn't even know I knew any Westlife songs!

A shout out to the Currawongs this particular sunset

Cheeky too, don't have to move too far for them to duck into camp

Dinner on the Colo R. Half an hour of a lyrebird going through his entire repertoire, a few metres away.
Cheers
Roger

Very jealous Roger.

On some of the more popular tracks in the RNP (wedding cake, figure , excited foreign languages. Strange I know, but it is for me nice to share something other than the Bridge and Opera House.

One "non sound" I always love is the quiet when you walk out of a windswept track into a tree lined grove.

Skinks in the leaf litter. Lyrebirds shrieking their alarm calls. Wallabies and euros thumping away through the scrub. Crimson rosellas pipping and chiming in the tree tops. At night, crickets creaking, mopokes, the first mozzies, possums emerging and bickering and landing with a thud on the forest floor.

awildland wrote:Wallabies and euros thumping away through the scrub.

Please excuse my ignorance awildland but what are euros?

MickyB wrote:

awildland wrote:Wallabies and euros thumping away through the scrub.

Please excuse my ignorance awildland but what are euros?

A smallish species of macropod. Very common in some areas.

Thanks NNW. Just looked it up and it's more commonly known as a wallaroo. Never knew it was also known as a Euro. I have learnt something today

Quick thanks to Hallu, that's funny

north-north-west wrote:

MickyB wrote:

awildland wrote:Wallabies and euros thumping away through the scrub.

Please excuse my ignorance awildland but what are euros?

A smallish species of macropod. Very common in some areas.

Been offline for a while and just seen this. Yes, euro's are a type of macropod, sometimes also known as common eastern wallaroo's (particularly along the eastern seaboard) and while eastern wallaroo's are smallish, Euro's found west of the Great Dividing Range are massive! As in HUGE. They look like they are wallabies on steroids. The males stand more than 6ft tall at rest, and have thumping big hind quarters and bid muscley chests. The males are always much darker than kangaroos or wallabies (almost black) and have a shaggier coat. In the centre of Australia when we have encountered them they make a distinctive snorting cough as a warning when you get too close. According to Wikipedia, that doyen of information, there is a subspecies of the common wallaroo that the word Euro is meant to apply to (Macropus robustus erubescens). We use wallaroo and Euro interchangeably. Because of their size they do make a solid thumping sound as they bound through the bush - hence my including them in the Sounds of Bushwalking.

So, Back to Sounds of Bushwalking, can I add cicadas (this time of year) and the sound of distant waterfalls, the sudden creaking of trees rubbing against each other on a breezy day.