Fun Park (and note it's only 13 hours)

You may notice that we are now only 13 hour apart from Ontario - this will only last for 2 weeks as we are about to come off of Daylight Savings Time here on March 24/25. This is the first year they have had DST in Western Australia. Very mixed acceptance - some like it, others hate it. Anyway, in 2 weeks time we'll be exactly 12 hours apart - easier to figure out at least!

Last evening we popped over to a local abandoned theme park which had been in the fires just before we arrived here. It has been out of business for quite some time it appears as there is extensive graffiti around the property (Mike did his best to keep it hidden). Made for some interesting photos though as you can see.

The other interesting thing here is the rejuvenation of the vegetation. If you check out the tree on the large photo, you can actually see the new green leaves on the top of the tree. The ground is now covered with the dried leaves which are falling off the trees, but the new ones are now sprouting.

Not all trees are recovering, but the more established ones with thicker trunks/bark seem to be coming back now. The smaller photo shows a tree with a completely burnt trunk. It is now sprouting new shoots right out of the trunk. On the ground, some of the plants which you would think are totally dead are actually now starting to thrive. These fern looking plants (sorry, don't know the name!) are cropping up all over - this one is right out of its burnt out shell.