A critically endangered Miena cider gum warms its branches in late afternoon sunshine. The most cold tolerant eucalypt species, these trees, native to lutruwita Tasmania, grow slowly in frost hollows, and produce a sap which ferments. Currently only two wild stands remain, after fires ( from dry lightning strikes brought about by climate change) decimated many in 2019.
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I am a feather on the bright sky.
I am the blue horse that runs on the plain.
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water,
I am the shadow that follows a child…
I am the hunger of a young wolf.
I am the whole dream of things.
You see, I am alive, I am alive.
~ Scot Momaday, Native American writer-poet.
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A misty morning after rains and upstream logging turn the water brown in this waterfall on the hinterland of Tasmania’s east coast.
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A Myena cider gum catches first light on a frosty dawn in lutruwita/Tasmania’s central highlands. These trees are critically endangered: endemic to lutruwita/Tasmania only eight small stands remain , after bush fires wiped out many in 2019. It grows in frost hollows : it is the most frost tolerant eucalypt in the world, and the tree sap ferments : Wayalinah is a drink made from the sap of the Tasmanian cider gum and fermented by Aboriginal people for thousands of years.
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Cape Deslacs in a turbulent mood.
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