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Boranup Forest - Karri Trees - Leeuwin-Naturalist National Park

February 5th 2012 11:54
... and some trees grow tall...

Boranup Forest Karri Trees
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)

Boranup Forest Karri Trees
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.

Boranup Forest Karri Trees


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...

bottle brush flowers trees
... colours of Christmas ...


bottle brush flowers trees
... beautifying the street ...


bottle brush flowers trees
... sharing space with others ...





bottle brush flowers trees
... enhancing the garden ...


bottle brush flowers trees
... over a wall ...




bottle brush flowers trees
... 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 ...


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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.


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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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Moreton Bay Fig Trees, Norfolk Island

April 12th 2011 00:52
...and some gigantic trees have a presence...

Norfolk Island is in the South Pacific Ocean, located east of Sydney and NW of Auckland


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Norfolk Island Pine (2)

April 2nd 2011 00:01
... and some trees stand tall ... despite what is blown at them ...

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Norfolk Island Pine Trees stand tall

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Norfolk Island Pine

March 28th 2011 09:00
... and some trees are symbolic ...

Norfolk Island Pine
Norfolk Island Pines, growing along Quality Row, Kingston, Norfolk Island.

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Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey

March 19th 2011 06:18
... and some trees beautify a solemn place of remembrance ...

Our trip to the Gallipoli Peninsula included visiting a small number of the many cemeteries that mark the resting place of soldiers who fell during the Gallipoli campaign, World War 1


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Cambridge, England

February 22nd 2011 00:22
... and some trees enhance the scenery ...

The city of Cambridge is famous for being a university town as it's the home of the famous University of Cambridge. This academic city is also the home of many beautiful trees and gardens


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Trees at Wonga Wetlands : dry arrangements

February 17th 2011 00:21
... and not all trees are alive and well ...

When we visited the Wonga Wetlands, Albury, NSW, we chose to wander along the 2.5 km ‘Red Trail’. We were thrilled at what there was to discover. A variety of birds inhabit the lagoons and magnificent trees grow in, and out, of the water


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Ta Prohm - some trees grow in ancient ruins ..

December 26th 2010 00:21
.. and are famous because of their gigantic roots.

In 2007 we visited Siem Reap, hired a Tuk-tuk and visited several of Cambodia’s ancient temples


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The Christmas Tree - a family ritual for most families in Australia

December 21st 2010 08:29
We lived on a farm and every year Dad would take the children and choose a suitable tree (or branch of a tree) to cut down and bring home to be loved and decorated for our Christmas Tree. Over the years we had gum trees, banksia trees and pine trees. Every year, as they gleefully departed on this excursion, I (Mum) would say, "Remember - not too big!" - but every year they would return with a tree that would hardly fit in the door and always reached the ceiling.
"It didn't look so big when we chose it," was the stock excuse.
The tree always stood in a big tin and held upright with stones packed around the stem


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Western Australian Christmas Tree

December 16th 2010 03:16
Last week we were travelling along Pearson Street, Perth, WA, when I spotted the unmistakable blossom of a Western Australian Christmas Tree. I had to take a photo.
Western Australian Christmas Tree
Western Australian Christmas Tree

I grew up on a wheatbelt farm in Western Australia and every year, around Christmas time, we would admire the Christmas Trees as the brilliant colour of their blossom brightened up the countryside. It didn't matter that a lot of the trees were scraggy and not a perfect shape - it added to their charm


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Weeping Willows - and some trees weep ...

November 19th 2010 11:55
The Weeping Willow is a large, magnificent, distinctive tree.

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Weeping Willow

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Snow Gums - Some trees thrive in the snow - Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia

November 13th 2010 11:45
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Snow Gums in September - Falls Creek - Victoria, Australia

Snow Gums grow in the snow slopes at Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia.
They often have intriguing twisted branches. The bark of the Snow Gums is smooth and white to light grey or sometimes brown-red, shedding in patches or strips to give a mottled appearance. Rather than losing its leaves in winter, the tree adapts to the weight of snow by progressively bending its branches so that the outermost branches extend vertically down and snow is shed from the leaves


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