Four Fires
“I'm surprised, because we've been in the area often enough and he's never mentioned the big Alpine Ash. Where we're going is only about an hour's drive from Yankalillee, though we'll be going on foot more or less as the crow flies. I'm a bit disappointed because I'd always imagined the big old tree would be growing further up on the Snowy range. I should have known better, Alpine Ash can't grow all that high up, but when a picture, a thing you want to believe, is stuck in your head, you don't a...sk it to make sense. 'We'll see where the fires went, eh? Should be a fair bit of regeneration,' Tommy says, then adds, 'We'll go the German bloke's way.' The German is a man named Ferdinand von Mueller, Victoria's first government botanist, who travelled from May Day Hills, which is more or less where Yankalillee stands today, to Mount Buffalo during the gold rush in 1853. We'll follow Myrtle Creek through Buckland Gap to Myrtleford and then on to the little town of Ovens and from there into the national park to Porepunkah and up the slopes of Mount Buffalo.MoreLess
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