Country Knowledge through Space, Time and Mobility
Mindful journey or instrumental reason?

At any Australian coast one usually hears the drone of speeding tinnies or even jet ski. Run by fossil fuel they are loud, fast and polluting. Fishermen, like car drivers operate in a 'getting things done’ modus.

But the acceleration of motorised (maritime) mobility is not conductive to the encounter between people and Country.

Indigenous Australians are renewing and maintaining the slow quiet movement of canoes to allow a different people-place relation.

“Moving faster can unsettle the possibilities for interaction that involves sitting near, listening, observing and engaging…The point is that the way we move is intimately connected to the way we know.”

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Transport study reveals why journey is as important as the destination
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/transport-study-reveals-why-journey-is-as-important-as-the-destination
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OK, so here's a form of racing I only learnt about today while wandering around YouTube.

Apparently, it's distinctly Australian. It's very fast, very dangerous, with the strong possibility of drowning. Sounds perfect.

Tinny racing. I feel like I should have known about it; maybe I did but forgot? I am old, after all.

This is 15 minutes of adrenaline along the Murray river and over some of the surrounding creeks.

https://youtu.be/hVdZ8MBnD3U

The person up front (aka bow rider, swinger, hanger, sack-o-potatoes) would have to be insanely fit.

#Australia #Boats #RacingBoats #Racing #WaterSports #River #Tinnies