Picture overload today. We took a drive out to Bells Rapids yesterday to see how one of our favourite hiking trails had fared after the horrendous fires last week. It would have helped if the three days of rain we had over the past weekend had come a week earlier but it did boost the water level in the river making the few green trees surrounding the water look a little like an oasis. More than 10,000 hectares of bushland were destroyed, the home to many a creature.. amazingly the birds were still singing.
Above yesterday and below an early morning view looking down into the valley from the lookout point when we were hiking here last year, so beautiful, all gone.. but not forever, the Australian bush is resilient, it will look like this again sometime in the future. Happy Thursday, take care and stay safe..
It looks so sad at the moment though it'll probably return even healthier in a few years.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me sad but I know it will return, so hopeful too.
ReplyDeleteIt is truly sad to see such destruction. Australia has suffered quite a lot from fierce fires. But, you are right, the growth will come back and it will be green and happy again.
ReplyDeleteThe area probably still smells like smoke, also.
ReplyDeleteNext spring the underbrush will be some of the greenest ever. Trees take awhile if they were killed.
That is very sobering, Grace. Will the people who lost homes be able to come back.
ReplyDeleteThe results of a fire can look terrible, but it is one of nature's ways of renewing an area. It gives new plants a chance to grow. Yes, nature will eventually come back. BTW, I enjoyed your phrase "chalk and cheese" in your comment on my road photo yesterday. It was a new one to me, but seems more appropriate. One photo with frosted trees was in town and the other in the countside. Any trees that exist here are only long rivers, or were planted by people. The natural landscape is prairie.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see and all those families that have lost their homes. Will they be returning or go somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteDearest Grace,
ReplyDeleteIt is the saddest thing, looking at such devastation by fire... Indeed, how many critters got killed by it, also those living underground as that is neither a safe haven.
Was it caused by a reckless person?!... God forbid.
Sure, nature always remains resilient, we've kept planet earth for millions of years and move on.
Hugs,
Mariette
...I hope that with cooler temperatures and some rain that life will return.
ReplyDeleteLife does find its way back from this.
ReplyDeleteSad photos, but good for people to see the devastation. It might be interesting to return late spring and see how the bush has recovered.
ReplyDeleteLooks dramatic but I hope it will repair itself soon.If only that would be possible by some other burned things.
ReplyDeleteIt´s scary, Grace.
ReplyDeleteAnd crazy. All year we had near to no rain and now the masses of snow.
And your rain comes too late as well. But maybe nature needs these fires from time to time?
So sad to see all this nature destroyed by the fires. It is a strange world, we are loaded with snow and you have to deal with the opposite...
ReplyDeleteIt is a very strange world!
ReplyDeleteWe've had a lot of rain, and now a lot of snow, and your nature is burning...
I hadn't heard about the fires you had. I'm so sorry. The first few photos look pretty devastating. Our weather has been crazy too. A few days ago we had the ACand the windows open. Then a couple days of rain and duststorms. And now it's hot again and we've got the AC back on.
ReplyDeleteFire can turn a beautiful landscape into a wasteland
ReplyDelete, but you are correct, Mother Nature will start to heal quickly.
Fires do the countryside some good I think but the problem is the the wildlife that cannot get out in time. Take care and keep safe, Diane
ReplyDeleteall these fires are so terrible. it seems to me that last year your region was spared. i hope this doesn't happen again, and that nature will soon take over.
ReplyDeleteReally sad about the bushfires, my stepdaughter lives in Lockridge, she's hoping it doesn't get near her.
ReplyDeleteOh my thanks for sharing these photos, and it's wonderful how all the critters in the world just adapt to whatever is brought to them. Sing birds is a hopeful sign too!
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