Today we took a trip around the mountains.
We left the boys in Warburton this morning and deicded to take the reefton Spur to Marysville and then back to heathcote via the Black Spur. This is a road that we have travelled many many times and especially back in the bike riding days. This particular lap was a favourite for most bikers and on any weekend you would find (and still do when the law is not around) many bikes cranked over through the corners of the spurs. Unfortunately this was also the area that coped the worst damage during the Feb fires and you can see from the pic that things are still very very grim up there. Marysville hardly exists anymore. Today they opened a supermarket in the old car museum and they also have a cafe and hairdresser back in action but the rest of the town and the wonderful 100 year old resorts are gone. The forests are very spooky and quiet. The tree ferns have come back with a vengeance with all the new light as the canopy is totally gone from massive parts of the area. The fire was so hot that alot of the euclypts will never recover and whole mountain sides are charcoaed tree trunks.
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Isn`t it funny in someways, that we see the Tree Ferns probably for the first time along the Black Spur Road ? During our bike days when we raced up and down the Black Spur on our Suzuki Katanas, knees bend back almost to the ears, "Katana was not made to be comfortable", and the forest was lush and green with a thick green roof, AND all we saw was the tar we where speeding on and the white center line. From that point of view, I,m glad to get older and slower, gives me more time to see things I used to race past before
couldn't have put it better
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