Rachel:
On my first day of practicum, I went on a field trip with my geography class to a forest north of Melbourne. We were looking at how sustainable the logging practices of the area were. On our way there we drove through some of the area that had been hit by the recent bushfires. I took some pictures but even these pictures don't really do justice. There were homes that had been completely surrounded by fire and had survived and then others that had fire far from their place and their house burned to the ground. There were cars burnt out, entire forests with not one speck of green and just charcoal everywhere.
The scary thing was that this area was about a 15 minute drive to Lauren's house, where I was staying at the time of the fires, and the ranger at the forest said that this fire had traveled 40 kms in 7 minutes
. Quite scary when you think about how close the fire was to Melbourne. A lot more people could have died. We're really lucky not to have forest fires in Canada. They are quite depressing. Everything in the forest dies pretty much; the animals, trees, birds etc.
. Quite scary when you think about how close the fire was to Melbourne. A lot more people could have died. We're really lucky not to have forest fires in Canada. They are quite depressing. Everything in the forest dies pretty much; the animals, trees, birds etc. Leave it to Australia to have a tree that only reproduces if it is burnt. The Mountain Ash tree only releases seeds if it is burnt by fire and the seeds can only grow if they are covered in ash.... This is a wierd country sometimes.
Aussie word of the day: "Daggy" - unfashionable, uncool, unclean, not neat as in "The constant dust that gets in our apartment means its quite daggy most of the time."
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