Tag: natural-history
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What the land allows
I’m still casting around trying to get a solid grip on what might be thought of as the ‘framing factors’ of the natural history of Bunga. My aim is to understand the variety of plant and animal species that exist here and how they have interacted over time, but so far I haven’t got beyond…
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What lies beneath?
The initial visual impression one gets of Bunga is of striking coastal beauty: partially forested undulating hills running down to the ocean. There’s some remnant farmland suggestive of its European agricultural past, but mostly the vista is of eucalyptus woodland, pockets of rain forest in the valleys and a ribbon of coastal heath along the…
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Where and what is Bunga?
I suppose questions of “where” and “what” are as a good a place to start as any! The area where I live on the far south coast of NSW is known locally as Bunga. But finding out just where and what Bunga is, is not easy. Google Maps will give you a dot point here.…