More fire trails

This time I explored the fire trails that circumnavigate the suburb of Cherrybrook. In particular, the Kentia Trail, the Carmen Trail, and the Daphne Trail. There are, as ever, some quite scenic sights to behold.

There are colourful cliff faces, and sunlit vistas across valleys.

There are a couple of recent man-made additions: bioretention filters, which capture pollution from stormwater run-off, using sand and appropriate plants.

And speaking of man-made additions, the fire trails themselves are here to protect the houses above from bushfires, by acting as a barrier, and by providing access for firefighters to fight fires, and to start them (as in hazard reduction burning). The Daphne Trail was used for a burn a few weeks ago.

There's a kind of beauty in the stark imagery and colours after a bushfire. And the bush does grow back, but the weeds tend to grow first, and the ecology is probably not really adapted to fires coming as frequently as they do these days.