Bushfire recovery

Saturday before Mothers day we took a trip down the Tasman Peninsular.   This is down the road towards Port Arthur, south east of Hobart,  through the areas that were affected by the January Bushfires.   We thought it might be a good opportunity to support the local businesses.   We bought a great lunch from the Dunally Bakery and took some time to drive though the township that was burnt to the waters edge in places.
The picture above was immediately post fire.   It was burnt to the ground on January 4th and with community support and I suspect a lot of effort it was able to re open in early feb,  only one week after school went back.








Other parts of the Town are slowly being fixed.   Lots of  bare blocks with Caravans and water tanks.   Now that the weather has started to cool down I wonder what sort of winter these residents are going to endure.   One upside  is that there is vast quantities of scorched firewood being cut and stacked.   This seems to be a Tasmanian obsession,  again I wonder just how cold winter is going to be.

We proceeded further down the peninsular,  stopping and looking at great places like EagleHawk Neck,  Sommers Bay,  Pirate Bay,  Tesselated Pavement,   the Blow Hole and Devils Kitchen.

 

 

 



 

The most surprising thing for our day out was that  no one got wet,   not even Will