Mountains on Mountains
Posted in Mixed Nuts on April 29th, 2009 by MadDog
If you’re seeing this it may be because I’m On The Road. I’ve prepared a few posts to be automatically published unless I intercept them and substitute a travel post.
When I leave my house each morning, I pass through a gate at the edge of our compound and this is what I see:
There is a large wood-chipping factory just outside the gate. The reddish stuff is tens of thousands of plantation-grown eucalyptus trees all chopped up into little chips about the size of a playing card. Once every few months a giant ship comes in and hauls them away. The blue mountains in the distance are the Finisterre Mountains. Here is another shot that I grabbed just outside of our gate:
On the way into town, I happened past just as this pretty scene was unfolding:
