Stayin’ Alive Stayin’ Alive
Aug 31, 2020
4 minutes
WE’RE in drought – serious drought. Our neighbour Lyn moved to our valley 40 years ago, and she reckons she’s never seen it this bad. When young, but mature, trees start dying and kangaroo mothers start abandoning their way-too-young joeys to fend for themselves, when the lyrebirds and koalas come out of the bush for feed and water and wombats and kangaroos start to break the taps off tanks to get to your precious remaining water supplies, you know you’re in trouble.
What’s really scaring us is that huge areas of the bush surrounding us are dying – the eucalypts, the understorey, all of
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