NATIONAL TREE DAY

Once again it is the time of year when we celebrate our wonderful trees in all their diversity of form and foliage, flower and bark.  As you walk among them look closely at the way they “twist” out of the ground, or lean into the wind; at the many different ways they cloth themselves with bark.  See how many insects and birds move among them, feeding and sheltering.

Our region has many lovely drives enhanced by beautiful trees to shade us, look at Forge Creek Road, what a joy it is to drive down, sunlight dappling the road as we go. 

 

The large gums in the township area are the remnants of the original old forest.

How poor would our island be without them