Whittlesea kinglake road,kinglake west

Roger31600, on March 4, 2009, said:

Lorsque l'on regarde la situation sur la carte on imagine parfaitement l'angoisse des nombreux voisins.

grcvvv, on March 4, 2009, said:

Davvero un grande peccato. Ma dalle ceneri la natura in genere nasce piu forte di prima. Speriamo, ne abbiamo tanto bisogno Ciao Vincenzo

pvlsorin, on March 14, 2009, said:

Very nice place! I invite you, when you have the time, to see a wonderful part of the world, in my country, Romania: the city in which I live and its surroundings. I promise you won’t regret it, thank you, the best of wishes, Sorin!!

diannemcd, on March 20, 2009, said:

Such devastation of our "Black Saturday." Dianne

marik2500, on April 7, 2009, said:

This is a virgin forest? If so then why is so much sand? Hello from Romania!

Alberto Asensio Góme…, on April 15, 2009, said:

¿Desnudos o, quemados? Saludos: Alberto

T.Techlowiec, on April 27, 2009, said:

This is absolutely great shot and very interesting too. I think it has worked out well and I hope that you are pleased with it too. Nice work Rosina. VOTED. Tedy.

I invite you to vote my march contest picture VILLAGE CHURCH if you think it deserves.

Peterbnz, on June 18, 2009, said:

The devistation in Australia was very bad, with many people lost in the fires. And, yes it was almost 'virgin forest,' but there were homes amongst those trees & bushes: almost all of them were lost this time around in several large areas.

Australia is actually a sand island, 6th largest country in the world, largest, flattest bit of earth ('The Times Atlas, 8th Edt.) Mostly sand I'm afraid - I must say I liked the bits I lived in for 18 years.

Cheers, Rosina. Peterbnz, Christchurch, NZ.

Inspector H snaps!!, on June 18, 2009, said:

The fires were on 7th February, 2009 and 171 people lost their lives, over 2000 dwellings were burned, millions of native animals died and almost half a million hectares of forest, farmland and towns were burned. Temperature in Melbourne was 46.3, hotter elsewhere.

This is most likely ash in this photo, because there are only sticks left, so all the undergrowth and tree canopy has burned as well.

You must have forgotten our mountains Peterbnz (I know they don't compare to your glorious southern alps) but we do have them and they aren't sand!!

Cheers to you in chilly in old ChCh !!

Mahdi Kalhor, on July 10, said:

WOW!

Very nice photo that shows us a beautiful garden.

All the best 2 U,

Mahdi

Inspector H snaps!!, on July 10, said:

What??? Mahdi, better put your glasses on and read the comments. This is not my photo, but have to let you know this is not a garden, it is the burned trees and ashes from a major bushfire here outside Melbourne on February 7th and a lot of people were caught and died.

clancy-of-the-overfl…, on August 12, said:

...Andre, read the messages above...look closely at the photo.

diannemcd, on August 12, said:

Ditto............I was about to write same. Dianne

André Bonacin, on August 13, said:

Wow! Yep, I agree. This sort of situation is, with above information, very, very bad! "Without the glasses" could be a winter landscape - kind of beautiful - , but the reality is very bad and sad! Greetings from São Paulo (Brasil), André.

clancy-of-the-overfl…, on August 13, said:

OK Andre, thanks for taking another look and replying. It was a terribly tragic day and it is hard to see this mistaken as a nice garden. We don't know Rosina but her photo certainly shows the devastation of our landscape. H

rosina lamberti, on August 14, said:

thank you

Ian Stehbens, on August 27, said:

Our great tragedy, Rosina, in every sense!!

kindest regards,

Ian

steandeb, on August 28, said:

great woodland photo rosina, i have one very similar!

joananton, on August 31, said:

Desolation. From Madrid. Joan