[The Holiday] - Day 4: Boranup Karri Forest.

[moonvoice]

Phew! Last but definitely not least;
one of my favourite places in the whole world,
even more than all these other 'favourite places in the whole world' that I've been posting.
Currently nuking dinner as well,
cabanossi curry and pasta!


Boranup karri forest.






































The spirit of this particular karri tree moved me so much I actually became teary (in a good way).













Tired feet! Time to go home!




And that's it! Thanks for your patience with the swathe of photos, hope you enjoyed them! :)

Comments

[white_rabbit]

So, so gorgeous.

I wish we had trees that mature around here. My city previously (several decades ago) was very polluted and looked like a moonscape. They did an immense re-greening and it is very green now, but all of our trees are, as far as trees go, very young. It's a very different feel from most forests. So stuff like this always makes me very happy. :)

[moonvoice]

The thing is, that's not actually mature karri forest. The trees get much thicker, and much taller. It's replanted karri, to replace the old-growth that they took a few decades ago. They're just... beautiful stately trees. :) Even this has a very different feel from old-growth Pemberton forest.

[silverjackal]

Glorious photos. :)

Your forests are all so comparatively bare of underbrush to my eye. Much more "open" than our forest here. (Though of course that doesn't automatically translate to "easy to travel through" depending on the ground.)

[moonvoice]

Well, two things are mediating the understorey.

The first: There was a massive fire that ripped uncontrollably through the Boranup karri forest about three years ago, and the understorey hasn't recovered. The reason for this - partly - is that karri forests weren't 'built to burn' like a lot of other eucalyptus and their understoreys. So, the understorey isn't accurately represented.

The second: This is a stand of immature karri with an immature understorey. Old-growth karri forest is much more dense (so dense, I actually struggled to get photos of it last year, because it was just a wall of green higher than head-height).

[gemfyre]

That explains a lot. I forgot about the fire. I was thinking it looked very young, neat and sparse for a Karri forest.

Have you visited the Tingle forests near Walpole?

[moonvoice]

I haven't for a long time. Certainly it was before the treetop walk. I'd like to go back though

[ariestess]

I love the shoes shot! shatterpath and I have done that on a couple of occasions!

[moonvoice]

Heh. I'm not use to taking shoes photos, but they are fun!

[ariestess]

They are quite fun... shatterpath also takes shots of her hand on the rail of various bridges and such. It's a fun way to get different shots.

[outlineofash]

So many wonderful photos, and so many stunning sights! Thank you for sharing them. :D

[moonvoice]

Eeee you're welcome, thank you for looking!

[feralkiss]

Thank you for all the wonderful pics! I just came back in Paris so I'm really pooped, so just a short comment from me for now. <3

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :D

[cherrydaiquiri]

Your travel photos are all so beautiful, but I just had to say that these ones really remind me of the Enchanted Forest commission piece you did!

[moonvoice]

Oh, that's awesome! Yeah, there was probably an unconscious influence!

[burningbright]

The height on those trees and the high canopy with the stark bare trunks is just unreal. It's so strange to what my senses are accustomed to with forests! But so otherworldly beautiful too.

I love the shot of that fungus!

[moonvoice]

They're young trees too. Proper karri trees are almost impossible to photograph, lol. Heh. But they are beautiful. I love karri trees.