Didgeridoo

The Didgeridoo is one of the best known Aboriginal Artefacts and just happens to be our most famous instrument. It comes from the North of Australia but now is in wide use throughout the land. The Didgeridoo is one instrument that has no equal, and can be recognised anywhere in the world by the distinct and unique sound and shape.

Authentic Australian Aboriginal didgeridoos have the hole through the middle eaten out or carved by Termites.

Termites are small creatures that eat wood.

I hope you never get these buggers near your house as they’re not polite and don’t ask to come in, they just eat all the timber in your house and soon enough it will fall down, or cost a lot to fix the damage.

In the bush termites live in large mounds of dirt they have made, they are sensitive to the light and heat so they don’t come out in the open rather; they travel underneath the ground digging their way through looking for timber to devour.

Once they have found timber or the roots of a tree they eat their way inside the roots and work their way up the tree!

Termites will move or eat their way right to the top of a tree, making their home or nest inside the tree. There they will stay making a near perfect hole up the middle of the tree, they can live there for a long time until there is no more wood for them to eat!