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A Hole in the Canopyby ~WildWassa

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Landscapes

Saturday was a dark and stormy day in the Illawarra, which was made worse ... when I saw another giant hole in the rainforest canopy called Wollongong.

My family are from the Illawarra. My ancestors in their European farming ignorance logged out an area called Cabbage Tree Creek, where they had their property.

Early rainforest paintings at the time of colonization and settlement of the Illawarra show Cabbage Tree Creek to be one of the most stunning subtropical rainforest that I've seen depicted in paintings. Cabbage Tree Creek nowadays looks very sad and somewhat industrial ... coal mining above the old property hasn't helped.

Sadly only 2.5% of the original rainforest in Oz remains as prime forest (undisturbed old growth forest) since colonization with only 12% left of the total area of the original rainforests, now remaining in various levels of disturbance ... and basically found in tiny remnant pockets that are very difficult to access ... a blessing, otherwise the situation would be worse.

We certainly have done our bit here in Oz to destroy an irreplaceable resource. In fact we have been Masters of Rainforest Destruction.

Youwah [link] and I took a trip along the south coast from Canberra to Sydney via the Macquarie Pass on Sunday and just when we got to the rainforest on the Hacking River, that I'd been telling him about for several hours ... it bucketed down in biblical proportions and we didn't see squat. It is good to see rainforest getting rain though.

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~CoyoteMoon80 Nov 3, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

beautiful!

~WildWassa Nov 3, 2011

CoyoteMoon80, G'day. Thank you.

All the best with your art.

Warren.

~wanderartist Apr 21, 2009

may the gods of the forest show you mercy.

~WildWassa Apr 21, 2009

Wanderartist, I know, sadly ... it is a life-long burden, that I'll not ever shake off.

It is like slavery in the US. The current generations are still tainted by the sins of their fathers. Despite passing ages slavery still condemns.

I plant trees though.

Warren.

PS, I don't expect forgiveness for my bad breeding, just a bit of understanding.

=MarinaCoric Apr 21, 2009 Professional

Gorgeous. Almost surreal.

~WildWassa Apr 21, 2009

Marina, thank you.

The rainforest is made more surreal, when 7/8th of this continent is absolute desert.

Warren.

~monophotography-uk Apr 21, 2009 Photographer

Another cracking shot Warren, and the detail below is very interesting, nice to read the story of the location.

~WildWassa Apr 21, 2009

Don, thank you.

Where I live, west of this escarpment, I'm in a rain shadow. Having rain in a rainforest to photograph makes me more dizzy than being in a fairground.

Warren.

~katikat Apr 21, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Amazing capture, so dark and sad too. But amazing great one- great job with this.

~WildWassa Apr 21, 2009

kati, Thank you.

It is good that this image is being seen by those who can appreciate the situation. I'm guessing parts of Finland have similar issues of negligence that has harmed the natural environment. I only see images of Finland that are of back woods wilderness ... but there must be logging issues?

Warren.

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