OPINIONISTA: Man Friday: Fynbos & Fire By Tony Weaver
On January 3, 2019, we drove away from a wasteland after what seemed like a fire holocaust had engulfed our family property lying in the foothills of the Buffelstalberg between Rooi Els and Pringle Bay near Cape Hangklip in the Unesco Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve.
I had only been back briefly since the fire, to retrieve some of our belongings that we abandoned as we evacuated just after midnight. Ash was blowing into the house through cracks under the doors, and the acrid post-fire smell was overwhelming. I only lingered long enough to do some hasty cleaning and to try toFire threatens the Weaver holiday house on 3 January 2019. The home is on a family property in the foothills of the Buffelstalberg between Rooi Els and Pringle Bay near Cape Hangklip.
Since the fire, we have been blessed with several cold fronts that have brought soft, penetrating rain to our valley, the kind of rain that soaks in rather than flooding and causing erosion gullies. The landscape was stark and bleak, but there was an ethereal beauty to it, the twisted and blackened protea bushes were sculptural, as if someone had designed a vast garden out of beaten cast iron. But as we drove up the valley towards the house, we could see that underneath the blackened bushes, there were green shoots everywhere.
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