Just heard on ABC that Parks have closed all walking tracks at Freycinet National Park due to the high fire danger.
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx? ... intID=3540
Regards OLM
north-north-west wrote:Freycinet gets a lot of people. Unfortunately, all too many of them ignore the FSOA signs. I've told off more than one group for collecting firewood at Cooks, Bryans, Hazards, even Wineglass.
It's a naturally drier area and extremely vulnerable to fire. In this case they're doing the right thing. I still vividly remember the fires back in . . . was it 1980.
headwerkn wrote:Not sure if it was the same fire event, but I remember in 1989 seeing Schouten Island pretty much entirely on fire one evening as we drove towards Swansea. Something crazy enough a 9-year old boy's brain to remember three decades later.
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