Dead Trees – Lake Richardson – Outback Australia
Although the light was a bit ordinary this morning, I rode the quadbike down to Lake Torrens on Arcoona station. Well, the light came good a couple of times for a short time, allowing for some great shots of the remains of ancient trees that have finished their life.
These trees, some sort of teatree, by the look of the living specimens, appear to have grown in rows as a result of a long term high water in Lake Richardson. Perhaps the different rows at different heights represent various high waters over a period of hundreds of years.
Must have been an interesting spot when those trees were alive. Ho long have they been dead do you reckon?
Ooh, dunno, Mate!
Some of the outback timbers last well, even in the ground as fence posts. I se signs that these trees have been used for fence posts and the old timers wouldn’t have used timber that roys easily. So some of these trees could have been lying on the ground for hundreds of years, I’d reckon.
They don’t have bushfires around here. Nothing much to burn! So anything that falls, lies where it fell till it eventually rots.