After the fire...

[khiemtran]

Note the best photo, but this is the view from the highway now. The eucalypts with the brown leaves will all probably recover. There were several kilometres burnt out and you can smell it quite a way before you can see it - the distinctive smell of burnt bushland. At the very front, you can see some trees that have only been partially burnt - at the this point didn't quite reach the highway. About a kilometre down the road, you can see where the fire did jump the highway, although only for a short distance. I heard someone on the radio saying he had driven through with both sides of the road on fire.

Here's another "after" shot showing just how far the fire travelled. All those gum trees are meant to be green, remember.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow--did you ever see Princess Mononoke? It looks like wherever the brown goo from the headless Forest Spirit touched.

Fire is very frightening.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

This is what we get for living in a world sodden with oxygen. Who knows what could happen when that stuff starts reacting...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Deadly, I tell you. We need a noble gas atmosphere. Argon, or neon.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

You'll have to take a photo in a couple of months to show how the land is regenerating.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Will do. I expect the trees will be mostly brown for quite a long time, but the wild grass and scrub should be green within months.