Boot Trees?

I’ve had a request to address the “significance of the Boot Tree”. I really had no idea! I’ve googled it to no avail, but Dunc thinks it means that someone has settled. So they’ve stopped wandering, hung up their boots and now call this place home. There was a scene to this effect in the movie “Red Dog”.

My take on the matter is that there are obviously far too many workplaces providing safety gear to their workforce around here! We see sooooo many termite mounds dressed in shirts and hats. Usually workshirts and often helmets! We are most often zooming past these at 100km/h in Bertha, which makes it incredibly difficult to stop and grab a photo. So thanks to google, I found this one on someone else’s blog:

Thanks www.sentiodotme.wordpress.com

One other similar sight was the ‘thong shack’ back at Denham. I have NO idea of the sentiments behind THAT one either, but having lived in our thongs pretty much continuously since then, we have some very well-worn ones that could have been added. Angus is onto his 4^th pair of thongs and Lexie her 3^rd. Dunc and I have each worn one pair of good quality Havaianas out completely.

 We haven’t yet seen a ‘bra tree’ but I’ve heard there’s one out there somewhere too…