A touch of light: ghost gums and fire beetles

By MIKE GILLAM All photos © Mike Gillam  Our fire hoses wouldn’t reach beyond our boundary so we ran a relay of water buckets to the ghost gum engulfed by flames. The fire at the base of Teppa Hill had been caused by a campfire, abandoned by drunks when buffel grass took hold and flames … Continue reading A touch of light: ghost gums and fire beetles