belsar island

Belsar Island is like a graveyard for dead trees.   I don't know what has caused all the largest trees on that part of the island to die.   Maybe it was the drought but there is also a real beauty in the landscape.  The River Track that I followed traversed through k after k of dead trees.  Sometimes there were mini forests of naked branches and trunks still reaching skyward.  The young trees in stark contrast looked like survivors with the huge old trees littered among them just eerie bare limbs outlined against a brilliant blue sky.