Tag: Fire

  • Fire by the Fenceline

    Fire by the Fenceline

    A nonchalant pose in the face of an terifying inferno? No, it’s a controlled burn, though it did go to the right edge of the fire brake where a park ranger gave it a gentle hose.

  • Controlled burn

    Looking over the National Park the other evening; a gentle crackling fire, so different from the infernos we see on the news in this climate change era.

  • After the Burn

      Grass trees are the first plants to re-emerge after a fire. This wet heathland in the Noosa National Park, literally on my doorstep, was a bare black patch in 2015 after a controlled burn. All the heavy foliage, consumed by fire, made space for the delicate Australian wildflowers. See Nature’s Bouquets