Mount Bogong

So like basically, if you've gone in the country and they've said you can't chainsaw logs, you can blame them, like bogong moths, right? So the reason why you couldn't do that was 'cause in case you, uh, fucked up the bogong moth.

And the bogong moth is basically, uh, there's a mountain, Mount Bogong, that's where they live.

No longer endangered.

They're in plague proportions all along the East Coast.

This is Mungaberrina, which means a special meeting place in Wiradjuri.

People would meet there on the way to Mount Bogong to collect Bogong moths, return, and feast on them.

Leonie shares this story.

[didgeridoo music] Mungaberrina means meeting place, so there's other places around, but you wouldn't say Mungaberrina.

This is a special meeting place because it was part of the Bogong moth journey.

[didgeridoo music] In traditional times, it was a place where, um, they would follow the Bogong moth trail to Mount Bogong.

The men would go up to the top.

They would have a fire at the top.

Mm-hmm.

And then in year nine you do a big hike up in like, like around Mount Bogong sorta area.

Like, um, like Falls Creek-

Mm-hmm