I know the trees are lovely – and there’s nothing quite like the smell of rain on eucalyptus or the beauty of the wildflowers in spring – but there is NO WAY I would live full time in the forest.
Dwellingup, the Hills, nup. No way.
Yes I love our family’s bush house in Dunsborough – but I don’t feel so vulnerable there for some reason. It’s so close to the edge of the bush I guess – and I don’t live there full-time. As a holiday home it is terrific. And I could spend a few days camping at Dwellingup. I have and I could again. But I couldn’t live there.
Yesterday a teacher died when her car rolled as she was trying to flee the Toodyay fire. Ironic that she was working in the area we have a shortage in, with school going back – make that 201 teachers we need.
But do we count her death as a road fatality or a fire related fatality? I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter to her family. Simply a tragedy.
So no, we won’t be selling up and moving to the hills any time soon.
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Ditto.
We’ve got family in the VIC countryside. Volunteer firefighters even. We visit in non-bushfire seasons, and I do love it… but being burned alive ? Um, no thanks.
Stayed in Dunsborough once ( en route to Perth ). Thought it was lovely, but it’s so long ago now, I can’t really remember much ….