Requiem For A Forest

[Irene]

Lovely poem Terry - those forests down where you are holidaying are beautiful, and such wanton vandalism to be destroying them!!

Ron - glad to see you got to climb good old Gloucester tree!! how'd you pull up afterward??
I climbed it a couple of years back also - after spending years sitting behind a desk for long hours of each day - was a trifle sore when I reached the bottom!!
And then I compounded the damage by stopping into Lakes cave on the way back to Dunsborough the next day - paid my money and went in before discovering there were somewhere between 100-200 steps down into the cave, then had to climb back up again!!! Ah, pain is good for the soul, so they tell me!!

[Ron]

Hi Irene,
Yeah pulled up ok, it was about eight years ago and I was much fitter then, don't know if I'd tackle it now though!! however it is now off the 'bucket list'!!

Ron

[Terry]

Thanks Irene and by the way congratulations on winning the poets brawl at Boyup Brook this year.

Come on Ron I bet you could still do it mate.

Terry

[Terry]

Thanks Matt

There's something really special walking through an old growth forest,
especially where you have these majestic giants of trees that seem as old as time itself.
You get that sense that you are seeing something that's really precious and sadly disappearing fast.

Cheers Terry

[Terry]

Hi Maureen,

Sorry I missed you first time through.

That's the other side of the problem - the loss of habitat,
Some of those trees are hundreds of years old
and take many of those years before they develop hollows etc.
that house and protect animals and nesting birds.

Terry

[Heather]

I haven't been to WA Terry but I've been to the Daintree and it was magnificent - including the 100% humidity that went with it. You'd like it there.

Heather

[Terry]

There's also some wonderful areas in Tasmania as well.

But the problem seems to be Australia wide.

Not too sure about that 100% humidity though Heather,
I've spent a lot of time in hot dry areas but with very little humidity most of the time.

Perth also seems to becoming more humid these days as well.

Terry

[r.magnay]

...good thing about the desert...mulga trees don't live very long anyway...

[Heather]

The Daintree is well worth seeing Terry. The first time I went there it was so humid it was very misty and we got soaked to the skin. You'd love the rainforest there, it's a very special place.

[Terry]

I'm sure i would Heather,
I love the rain forest's in Tasmania, Different I know but still rain forest.

Hi Ross,
A bit different out there mate, but there are some wonderful trees out there none the less.
I know a spot that's like an oasis in the desert, with groves of gimlet and on some of the usually dry larger creeks a few great old river like gums, and I'm sure you've seen some of those creeks that are lined with ghost like gums, sometimes real ghost gums or even stunted york trees. I've sat at camp of an evening and marveled at them in the fading light - magic mate.

Mind you, on the other hand I know a lot of places with very little of anything growing.

Cheers Terry