Comments on: Near the snowline in Turkey

By: andrew skeoch

andrew skeoch — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:19:04 +0000

Leonie -
Yes, you’re right, but it is an optical illusion. The forests are firs not snow gums, there are no honeyeaters or parrots here, and the journey to get to this place is not a half day’s drive from Melbourne!
But it’s interesting (we’ve found it so anyway) how when confronted with the unfamiliar, we easily relate it to what we already know; places, plants, even birdsongs.
Andrew

By: Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:54:12 +0000

Great news that you got to have a snow experience! I’m sure it was a treat. Thanks for sharing such great details along your road, in words, sound, and images….

By: julie gittus

julie gittus — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:46:22 +0000

So easy to get caught up in our own little worlds – how amazingly wonderful to be sitting in a kitchen in Australia while dinner is cooking listening to bird and water sounds from what feels to me right now, a very remote and special location. I’m trying to imagine how I could explain this experience to my Great Nana who was born in 1883!! Beautiful.

By: Leonie

Leonie — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:09:31 +0000

Lovely photos and recordings, as usual. That first photograph looks remarkably like a view of our own Mount Feathertop in the Victorian Alpine region; albeit a little rockier in the foreground.