work uniform

 I was giggling about what Tawhiri was imagining I wore to work as a caretaker of a Mine site..  Out Bush in Australia. And from a overseas point of view it is a pretty interesting place 🙂 

It’s 20 minutes out of town and accessed of a infrequently graded dirt track. The track goes uphill but it also has some dips in it so there are places you can’t see ahead. It was very overgrown on both sides but when there was the bushfire there they lit up the scrub on one side a’ll the way along the track – about 4 kms – to back burn to stop it. There have been several fires there in the last 20 years so the yakkas or blackboys some people call them are quite thick in between the mallee and a large range of gums and some pines. In spring the track was also lined with pretty pink and white little daisies on long stalks that must have escaped from a early settler garden. Everything is burnt and black on the fire side except the new mallee shooting from the ground and the new green tops On the yakkas. A strip of the burnt trees has been knocked down by a scrub roller and a few fence has been started. There was a koala sometimes sitting in a tree branch of a big manna gum overhanging the track but I haven’t seen him since the fire. There are however always emus on the track and sometimes kangaroos. The emus are incredibly stupid and will just continue to run along in front of the car for ever. I had two in a complete panic the other day because I was tooting at them so they ran back and forth in front of the car instead. If you foster them too much though they can run AT the car and injure themselves soI just tootle along behind them waiting for their little brains to compute that they could just go left or right instead of straight ahead… Roos have a brain and hop off the track in their casual way.. ‘My’ admin donga ( portable building) is not far in from the locked gate and the fire burnt right up to it too. But beyond it and out the back is all flowering gums parrots hawks honey eaters and honey bees. The early settlers were great ones for planting pine trees and sadly there are many of these (not native) trees as well..  But they smell delicious..