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Boranup Forest - Karri Trees - Leeuwin-Naturalist National Park

February 5th 2012 11:54

... and some trees grow tall...

Karri Trees - Boranup Forest - Leeuwin-Naturalist National Park

Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park is a national park in the South West region of Western Australia (Australia), 267 km south of Perth. It is named after the two locations at either end of the park which have lighthouses, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is located in the Augusta-Margaret River and Busselton council areas, and is claimed to have the highest visiting numbers of any national park in Western Australia.
(Wikipedia)

Karri Trees - Boranup Forest

The Boranup Forest is about 20 kms from Margaret River.
The scenic drive through Boranup Forest amongst the magnificent, tall Karri trees is amazing.

Karri trees can grow up to 60 metres or tall. The roads through the forest are suitable for all vehicles. The Boranup Forest is a favourite spot for holiday makers. Travellers can visit briefly and enjoy a BBQ and/or picnic. If you want a longer stay a camping area is provided.

The Karri Forest timbers were heavily milled and the trees we look at today are regrowth. The last mill closed in Karridale in 1913 - nearly 100 years ago.

*** stand ... and look up ***

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Bottle brush

October 11th 2011 05:46

... and some trees are a blaze of colour ...

This morning we dropped our car off for its scheduled service and decided to walk the 9 kms home so we would 'clock up' our daily exercise. The bottle brush are magnificent in Perth this year, so I decided to take my camera along and enhance our journey by taking photographs of these eye-catching trees.

ENJOY...

... colours of Christmas ...

... beautifying the street ...

... sharing space with others ...

... enhancing the garden ...

... over a wall ...

... change of colour ...

*** dripping splendour ***

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The Pine Tree at Lone Pine, Gallipoli

April 25th 2011 00:46

... and some trees have great significance ...

The Lone Pine at Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli

This tree has become the symbol of Australian Nationhood.

Over the years dozens of seedlings originating from the first Lone Pine, have been planted throughout Australia.
We visited this place on 24th April, 2009, and it was abuzz with activity as people prepared for the Anzac Day Service to be held the next day.
Despite the activity, wandering around the cemetery and standing quietly in front of the Memorial was a moving and memorable experience.

Anzac Day Service at Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial, Gallipoli

The Lone Pine Cemetery marks the place where the attack on the Turkish Lone Pine position took place in 1915.
We attended the Service held here on 25th April, 2009, after the dawn service at Anzac Cove. Despite the crowd it was a moving and memorable experience.

Wreaths laid at the Australian War Memorial during the Anzac Day Service,2009, Lone Pine, Gallipoli

Every soldier who served at Gallipoli knew Plateau 400 or Lone Pine, the scene of some of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat by Australians in the First World War.

Lone Pine was a heavily fortified Turkish trench position, identified by a solitary pine tree. The Lone Pine was the name given to this solitary tree, which marked the Battle of Lone Pine in 1915.

The original Lone Pine was the sole survivor of a group of trees that had been cut down by Turkish Soldiers who had used the timber and branches to cover their trenches during battle. The tree was obliterated during battle.

After the capture of the Lone Pine Ridge an Australian soldier who had taken part in the attack, in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks to cover their trenches, and sent it to his mother. From seed shed by it she raised a tree and presented it to be planted in the Australian War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others sons who fell at Lone Pine.

On Anzac Day (25th April) every year a Dawn Service is held overlooking Anzac Cove. People (mainly) from Turkey, Australia and New Zealand gather each year to remember and honour the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula during the First World War and to pay their respects to service men and women who have served and continue to serve their countries.
After the Dawn Service the crowd disperses to attend Memorial Services which are held later in the day at Lone Pine (Australia), Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) and The Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial Park (Turkey).

Chunuk Bair Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey

Written on the Memorial is the following inscription:
" In Honour of the Soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 8th August, 1915.
'From the uttermost ends of the earth' "

The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of New Zealand and Britain. A Memorial Service remembering all New Zealand troops who fought and died is held at this Memorial every Anzac Day.

Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial Park, Gallipoli, Turkey.

The 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial is a Turkish war memorial commemorating the men of the Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment who died during the Battle of Gallipoli.

References: Wikipedia, Legacy, Australian War Memorial
Photographs taken by Glenys Deutscher

*** peace, peace - may their sacrifice still, yet, not be in vain ***

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