AFTER THE FIRES
Update
February 2020
Two days after the fire passed our nearest neighbour, 7km to our north, travelled down to Yambulla.
FEBRUARY 2020
Two days after the fire passed our nearest neighbour, 7km to our north, travelled down to Yambulla.
Our neighbour, who had stayed to protect his property, travelled down to Yambulla and sent us footage of the house still standing surrounded by an incinerated landscape.
We now believe the main fire front passed 500m to our west while a smaller fire, escaping this front burnt uphill against the wind around and under the house. This in effect created a fire break which prevented the house and shed from burning while fires raged in our valley for the next 2 weeks burning everything that the front had missed.
By the time the roads through the forests were reopened and we could gain access to the property, it was late January. There had been 50mm of rain and the landscape had already begun to emerge from the ashes. Australian flora has adapted to fire over tens of thousands of years. We observed with interest that our neighbours’ pastures, modified with introduced species, took considerably longer to recover.
Feel at home in our secluded, architect-designed off-grid guest lodge. Surrounded by nothing but nature as far as the eye can see.
Cool and breezy inthe summer and cosy with wood-fired central heatingin the winter.
We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples as the first inhabitants and traditional custodians of the Yambulla valley and surrounding areas.
We recognise and value their continuing connection to the land and culture.
Two days after the fire passed our nearest neighbour, 7km to our north, travelled down to Yambulla.
FEBRUARY 2020
Two days after the fire passed our nearest neighbour, 7km to our north, travelled down to Yambulla.
Our neighbour, who had stayed to protect his property, travelled down to Yambulla and sent us footage of the house still standing surrounded by an incinerated landscape.
We now believe the main fire front passed 500m to our west while a smaller fire, escaping this front burnt uphill against the wind around and under the house. This in effect created a fire break which prevented the house and shed from burning while fires raged in our valley for the next 2 weeks burning everything that the front had missed.
By the time the roads through the forests were reopened and we could gain access to the property, it was late January. There had been 50mm of rain and the landscape had already begun to emerge from the ashes. Australian flora has adapted to fire over tens of thousands of years. We observed with interest that our neighbours’ pastures, modified with introduced species, took considerably longer to recover.
