A FARAWAY JUNGLE
Oct 20, 2021
5 minutes
Words Jana Holmer
Austral-Ind, on the Leschenault Estuary near Bunbury in Western Australia, was founded in the 1840s as a place to breed horses for the British Indian Army. It was a forlorn hope. Poor soil, erratic rainfall and lack of water meant the settlement failed to thrive until the postwar era a century later, when Bunbury began to expand north of the Collie River.
Now called Australind, the area is filling up with housing blocks like Jacqueline’s 570m2 property. More than half of her block is lush tropical garden, despite the fact that the local soil is no better than it ever was — lifeless sand, most of it.
THERE’S FRUIT HANGING LIKE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND WATERCRESS GROWING IN WATER IN FOAM BOXES UNDER ENORMOUS TROPICAL TREES.
Jacqueline started by digging
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