Giant snow gums

April 7, 2008 by Fred Baker

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The Giant Snow Gums Walk in Coolah Tops National Park took me into a world totally new to me.

Here Eucalyptus pauciflora grow tall and straight, not low and blizzard-racked like the sort of snow gum I had in mind, as in the Snowy Mountains.

This open forest has a lower storey of a strange wattle, slender dark trunks bearing no lower branches beneath their oriental umbrellas of bluish-green.

To me their fluid shapes have a rather sinister frozen-in-action look. And are they whispering to each other up there as they lean towards each other?

Or are they receiving instructions to let me pass or not? Perhaps from the gargoyle mouth on the mighty snow gum just ahead?

2 thoughts on “Giant snow gums”

Sharyn Munro

April 16, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Thanks Sarah (and Martin). The webmaster will put up a link to your Green Postcards for my site visitors lucky enough to be travelling – or dreaming of it.
Sharyn
Green Postcards Blog (Sarah Mueller)

April 12, 2008 at 6:18 am

Hi Sharyn! I just wanted to let you know that we mentioned your book on Green Postcards Blog, an affordable eco-travel blog, today. I interviewed Martin Fallding, Callicoma Hill’s owner, and he suggested your book to our readers. See the post here: http://greenpostcards.typepad.com/green_postcards/2008/04/australias-ca-1.html

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