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Most local cachers will remember the fire in February 2019 in the Sir Stanley Whitehead Reserve. Five helicopters did circuits, picking up water from the sea and other firefighters were on the land. Fortunately they did get the fire under control without any harm to people or loss of homes, although many trees did not survive.
We were back today to walk the track and inspect the damage. We could see the black skeletons of trees, charred timber and stumps of the trees that have been felled. However, there was also the green of the trees that did survive and the hillside had lots of new growth, fed by the ashes of the fire.
We had a cache near a fence in the area. Parts of the fence did not survive the firefighting and the cache disappeared.
So out of the ashes, new life appears. The phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor – and we now have a new cache in the area arising from the space made by the loss of the previous cache.
It is not in exactly the same spot in case the damaged fence is restored in future.
Bring your own pen/cil.