Our herbal tradition teaches us to live within the seasons and an important way to do that is to learn from mob about how they live in union with the land around them and the signs that tell them that change of season is upon us.
Our friends at Currie Country help us with this (as well as others) and this is an excerpt from their website explaining the current seasonality.
JUBEI - PRE SPRING
SEASON OF THE JUBEI (MUD CRAB)
Begins late July
August
Ends early Sept
Jubei season begins around late July early August till early September, a transition time when the weather starts to warm up.
Drying out and winds can be strong, first hint of the northerly winds. Birds starting to sing, and build nests. Turtles and echidnas start moving around and are fat for eating. Old People do say don’t eat the first echidna after winter. The coastal acacia peak. Some heaths are flowering. Banksia still flowering. Grey mangrove mass ripe fruit.
People take advantage of the low spring tides to explore the reef which offers an abundance of jalumm (fish) such as snapper, mogim (sea perch). Shell fish on the reef are also fat. A walk in the mangroves can be rewarding as the kinyingarra (oysters) and mangrove jubei (crabs) are now fat at this time.
Towards the end of the season, the days become very hot and humid, making the arrival of kujei (honey bees).