For the fires did get down to the Rapid river, spooling through the guts of Tasmania’s Tarkine region. Early in 2016, the 89-year-old gardening presenter Peter Cundall was speaking to Phillip Adams at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival. She has been documenting the effects of the Tarkine fires and has also provided our beds for the evening. There’s a border of long, black trees lying on the ground with bushes of burnt brown leaves from the unthroned canopy. Other trees cling on, their blackened roots fumbling for water in the air – here the soil has washed out too.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2017 02:48 UTC