This is the Epping Forrest section that was burned out last month
the blackened stumps and no fences at all
from the front window (yes Simon while i was driving) looking towards Launceston all the trees are brown and scorched with their trunks scarred and blackened still......
Then i am glad to say just before we went through the blackended Epping Forrest we saw this amazing sight which spiraled us back into the past.....
Sheaths of wheat all stacked waiting to be harvested by this machine...(Opps old time machine)
A Grain Thresher...runs on steam and the sheaths of wheat are manually fed into the back and the wheat is thrashed off each stalk and the hay is left...there were some old codgers there working the old machine and they waved to me and sang out to come and have a look...we were on a shedule...and it was backtracking onto another road....it was a farm machinery show out there in the paddocks in the middle of nowhere....see the other old pieces of machinery in the background..... dedicated followers of fashion ...i think not but dedicated to restoring our past and keep it working...i think so.
Epping Forest looks the way the Yanchep National
ReplyDeletePark looked a couple of years ago when we had terrible fires. Thankfully, as you know, it does revive itself, and doesn't take too long about it. Not so sure the same will happen in Victoria. The land is so bleak there I think it will take ages to look like its former self.
The farmland looks lovely. Those rolling hills. Have you ever wanted to live in two places at once? That's how I feel about WA and Tassie. WA is safe and comfortable financially, but views of Tassie make me pine!