Bushfire Beauty 3 - Tasmania 2016
by Lexa Harpell
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Bushfire Beauty 3 - Tasmania 2016
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Lexa Harpell
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Bushfire Beauty 3 - Tasmania 2016 by Lexa Harpell.
Australia is renowned for its many bushfires that rage across the country each year in summer. It seems that Mother Nature chooses a state each year to express her destruction - and 2016 was Tasmania's turn.
It is a brutal and destructive land, yet filled with awe inspiring landscapes - even during destruction. This tree bares the beauty of its naked skeleton in its form, twists and turns.
Many species of trees and plants have learned to survive the devastation. Some plants actually need bushfires to prosper, needing the extreme heat to burst and scatter their seed pods to grow new plants. Without bushfires, their species would die out.
You look at the stripped tree of all their leaves with blackened trunks and wonder how they will continue to live - most do, they have adapted.
I was traveling around Tasmania in 2016 during a severe bushfire season, having to map a clockwise route to escape certain areas over the months of this summer. Listening daily to radio updates to avoid where new fires had broken out - re plan - which roads I could drive to reach my next destination - re plan - when fires had finished devouring its life source to perhaps enter the area with safety.
Whilst staying at Arthur River on the west coast, I watched and listened to the volley of helicopters taking off and landing to survey the fires from the air around the clock - I was camped about 200 mtrs from the helicopter base and a crew of firefighters.
Then I heard nearby Nelson Bay was safe for travel. Only two days earlier the area was ablaze. The landscape was covered in thick grey ash with no colour in sight - the trees and bush were burnt black. A few more days later, I noticed small sproutings of bright green grass pushing their way through the carpet of ash and tiny sprigs of green leaves pushed through the blackened trunks.
Australia has learned to be an adaptable landscape from thousands of years of bushfires.
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