The Black Spur is a 28 kilometre stretch of hazardous tarmac that winds through a living cathedral of trees taller than any other but the unsurpassed redwoods. Reaching a height of 114 metres, Eucalyptus regnans, the Mountain Ash, stretches skywards on vertical, clean-limbed trunks that shine with a silver sheen in the dappled sunlight that penetrates the canopy. Tree ferns are dwarfed in this forest of giants who lavish the air with the fragrance of menthol, tempting, as it were, the beguiled guest in this Victorian glen to end his days in the dry dusk of dreamtime.
speaking of which, there are SO MANY eucalyptus at my school
and they really stink! what fragrance?! overconcentration of a smell in the glands can be really bad. especially mixed with rotting leaf and bark on the ground with the humidity of coastal weathers. speaking of which, obviously it's not native here. according to my lecturer, its introduced since its apparently an australian thing only. if only they'd have imported the koalas too...
when at kent ridge park, theres this 2 eucalyptus and when we show people the tree, must try so hard to smell it, some more must crush leaf to smell. HERE, omfg i can't wait to get out of the E-zone! it'll beat a life long supply of eucalyptus oil.
talk about AROMA-therapy! now i need therapy!
i've been wanting to blog about this! lol now i'll just rant it here :P
Posted by: ape | 27 January 2005 at 12:17 AM
btw where is this?
Posted by: gorilla | 27 January 2005 at 12:18 AM
ape sounds angry... have some eucalyptus oil to calm u down... :P
Black Spur is 2.5 hours drive east of Melbourne, Aussieland.
Posted by: budak | 27 January 2005 at 12:21 AM
you know apes, they're imbeciles!
No wonder got eucalyptus.. it's aussieland!
i would have been surprised and start doing the biogeography analysis if you said that was europe or something :P
this photo is recent?
Posted by: baboon | 27 January 2005 at 01:00 AM
We went there last August/September. Freezing cold in the mountains and too foggy to get good sights. My mom had a good freeze!
Posted by: mrs budak | 27 January 2005 at 09:57 PM
I grew up not far from here and I know the area really well. The Black Spur road is called Maroondah Highway and is 14kms past a town called Healesville, 60 kms north-east of Melbourne. It is a gorgeous part of the world and I love re-visiting it on the rare occasion that I am in the area.
Posted by: Saracen Jones | 23 April 2005 at 03:46 PM
We stayed at the Healesville Hotel in the town itself for a couple of nights and drove around the region. It's a really good (and not overly distant) respite from Melbourne and must be a lovely place to grow up in.
Posted by: budak | 26 April 2005 at 06:05 PM