Kambarang Season

FLOWERING SEASON

SEASON OF BIRTH

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER

COLOLUR - YELLOW

To represent the wildflowers (Djet Malkakoom) that cover the country during the Kambarang Season.

During the transition from Djilba to Kambarang Season, the weather rises in temperature with increasingly warm to hot dry days and less cold fronts coming from the coast. Wildflowers Djet Malkakoom, flower this time of year and an abundance of colour is displayed across country boodja. The Moodjar or Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) leads the Season and the continuation of yellow wildflowers is magnificently joined by a veritable plethora of colours from the explosion of wildflowers in every direction across the landscape, where the bees and small birds busy themselves with nectar collection.

The long tall flowering stalks of the great Balga grass tree (Xanthorrhoea preissii) are prevalent this time of year pointing to the sky, whilst the Kurup Australian Bluebells (Billardiera lehmanniana/ fusiformis/ heterophylla) provide a sweet treat closer to the ground.   Boon or Bridal Rainbow (Drosera macrantha) with it’s pink or white flowers and carnivorous insect attracting leaves, grows in wet to rocky soil and is used as an energy boost when the small roots are eaten.

With the weather warming, reptiles such as Karda (Goanna), Noorn (dugite), Wakarl (Carpet Snake), Nornt (Tiger Snake) and Yoorn (Bobtail) emerge from their Seasonal hibernation looking for food and a warm place to reproduce.  

The Koolbardi (Magpie) are noticeably protective of their newly born offspring and bush animals that rely on the receding fresh water sources could be found by traditional hunters who sustainably collected water fowl eggs, frogs, tortoises and marron. Traditionally, people would also move closer towards coastal areas, catching fish, crabs and shellfish to supplement their diet, where the whale migration along the Western Australian coastline is occurring.