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| Lost in a Eucalyptus Forest, Kiri Kiri |
I took a 'short cut' on my first afternoon in New Zealand. It was waymarked across a valley and through a forest to where I wanted to go, but then the path kept dividing and dividing and I was lost. The eucalyptus trees towered above 100ft (30 metres) or more. Shapely treeferns growing below like bracken would at home. Songbirds flittered through the branches, and everywhere was a background percussive rasping of insects beating their wings. The pathways were littered with eucalyptus leaves of stunning colours.
An hour or two later I came out onto a road...precisely where I'd entered the' short cut'.
2 comments:
Ah well! round and round in circles we go!! Sounds like a beautiful walk (marathon) though. Lovely soft leaves.
Yes! I had a good cool swim in the estuary after that marathon in the heat! Then settled down on a bench under the trees for a couple of hours to paint the leaves. I think it was easier to match the colours exactly from my old watercolour box than if I'd had tubes of acrylic.
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