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Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 63
WOW!! What an incredible day! It has been super busy … I am exhausted, but so completely happy and inspired. The show of support has been so massive! By this afternoon’s media update, we had 48 actions. But the emails and photos have just kept rolling in!! And we now have 70 actions!!
I would like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this action. It has definitely given me the inspiration and enthusiasm to stay up in this tree …. knowing that I am not alone, but in fact supported by hundreds of people all across the globe! Lets keep this going and let’s make sure these irreplaceable forests are protected forever!
If there was every a clear message to be sent to the industry that the time for forest destruction is up… it is now!
Although it has been so busy today, it has been so exciting… checking the email and finding more and more responses every time! There may even be a few late ones straggling into my inbox tonight.
Just a short blog from me today, because I think the images speak for themselves about what a significant day it has been… check out the slideshow!
THANK YOU for making this global 24 hours of action so successful. You are all so amazing and I so inspired be everyone who has stood up for these forests over the last two days. Lots of love to you all!
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 61
“What you are doing is so amazing” …. “your action will go down in history” …. “I wish I had the courage that you have”….. “I wish I could do what you do” …. “you are a true hero”
Hmm…. how awkward! These are just some of the things people have said to me since I have been in this tree. I shyly thank them for their support. But it makes me feel a little uneasy. What do you say when someone calls you a hero? What I really want to say is “I am not a hero”
I guess it’s because I don’t want to be your hero. I want you to be your own hero. And you can be. For the forests, for yourself, for the world. Everybody can do something that makes them a hero. I think the most important part of my action is that it is inspiring other people. I hope that I can inspire you too.
I am not sitting up here on behalf of you. I am sitting up here in solidarity with you.
My action alone will not save the forest. That is just not how it goes. I really need you. Maybe I even need you to be MY hero! Because without you we cannot save this forest. It’s not that I don’t believe that the actions of one person can make a difference, otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting up here, right? But I think that the way it can make a difference is to inspire others so that together we can create change. I think this is how it is always throughout history. But it is often not how history is told. Somehow in the retelling the stories always change. The history books become filled with “heroes.” The tale of David vs. Goliath gets repeated over and over again. I can’t know whether the story of David and Goliath is true. But I do know this much… it is very difficult when you are one person small and alone trying to fight off something that is much bigger than you (for example… the logging industry) and it would be much easier to fight if there were lots of Davids (so to speak) working together. For every story in history of a hero, an idol, a leader who changed the world…there is the unwritten story of many many people who took action, many people without whom that change would never have come about.
This is what I want to say when people call me a hero.
Me sitting up here in this tree wouldn’t make any difference if it wasnt’ for you. If you weren’t reading my blog, spreading the word, taking action. The companies who are buying the wood that comes from this forests, they probably wouldn’t really care what I think. Let’s face it, I probably wasn’t going to be buying any of their timber flooring anyway, right? Who do they really care about? Well, it’s you. I mean, not just you, but all of you – collectively. When they see that right across the world there are people who are speaking up for these forests, that is when they will start getting worried. And if my action is going to save this forest, that is how it will happen. Not through my action alone, but as the catalyst for actions right across the world.
Community action in the Upper Florentine forest
Please don’t think that I am something special, that I am living a life you couldn’t live, doing things you couldn’t do. Sure, maybe you aren’t able to climb up into these trees. But you can still speak up for these forests (and the other things that are important to you too). In what ever way that you can. Whether it be painting a sign and getting your photo into our 24 hours of action (hint, hint). Or writing a letter to the editor about the issue. Posting information on facebook. Handing out flyers. Taking part in the cyber action. These things are as important as sitting in trees!
So please, next time you think that I am a hero, remember that you are a hero too! Next time you feel glad that I’m up here defending the forests, remember that I am doing this WITH you. And that only together will we be able to make a difference.
On that note, I want to encourage everyone to take part in the global day of action. Even if all you can do is write a small sign, hold it up in your lounge room or back yard and get a photo. It doesn’t matter how small your action is, it still counts.
On Wednesday when we contact the Japanese companies who are buying wood from Ta Ann that comes straight from these high conservation value forests….. we want to show them how much people care about these forests. I know that you care, because you are taking the time to read this. But we have to make sure that they know too. The impact that we can make if we have 20 actions is twice as big as if we had 10. The impact that we can make if we have 100 actions… well, that would be just HUGE.
Ta Ann and their customers are beginning to feel the pressure. The word is spreading. Their “eco”-friendly brand is at stake. The cyber action has been getting lots of attention. If we can show them that the world does not want to buy products made from ancient forests… if we can show them that the world wants to see these world-class forests protected….If we can show them that it’s not just one person sitting at the top of a tree who loves these forests, but hundreds of people all over the globe… then we will be one great big step closer to them making the change they need to.
Please, join me on feb 14 and 15. Be my hero!!!
Miranda
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 60
Can you imagine these forests being cut down simply to be burnt? Can you imagine the government and forestry industry giving themselves a pat on the back (and a stack of carbon credits) for being so “clean and green” by destroying these forests?
A few days ago Independent Rob Oakeshott, member for Lyne, made the move to overturn regulations in the Clean Energy legislation, that currently disallows the burning of native forest wood for power from being recognised as “renewable energy.”
It is an absolutely ridiculous concept to create incentives for forest to be cut down as ‘renewable energy’ when forests are our major carbon stores! It is completely the opposite of what is needed. There needs to be incentives to protect the forest.
This is a very scary prospect for Tasmania, because there are already proposed forest furnaces. Now that the global market is beginning to reject wood and paper products made from Tasmania’s ancient forests, the government seems to be creating new perverse ways to continue to log these forests.
As Warrick Jordan, from The Wilderness Society said “These regulations are not about burning a few offcuts at the local mill. The Australian commodity native forest industry is currently in freefall, with markets for woodchips disappearing rapidly and the industry going through a period of fundamental structural change. Burning vast quantities of woodchips for power is a desperate attempt to keep the industry alive while the last healthy forests are liquidated.”
To destroy irreplaceable ecosystems simply to burn the wood for power cannot and should never be called “renewable energy.” There are other options out there for energy creation that do not involve the annihilation of wildlife habitat and pristine forests.
Bob Brown called it a “swindle” and I think that is an accurate description. Most people would be shocked to find out that energy they are purchasing as “renewable” has resulted in forest destruction.
Take action on this issue today:
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 58
It’s subtle, but I can feel it every time. The way I slightly tense up each time at the sound. In reality it’s actually that moment of silence where it happens. In between the chainsaw cutting out and… just waiting for the crack, the crash, the fall of the tree. Sometimes I don’t even realise I’m aware that it’s happening. I guess when it goes on all day, it becomes back ground noise. But I never really stop hearing it, I never stop feeling that slightly tense moment in each of those silent seconds before each tree falls. I guess this is what I am here for – this is the observer tree and I am the observer. My observations so far… trees are falling everyday in these forests. I hear them falling in Tn 42A, the coupe adjacent to me. But I know that these are not the only ones. They are falling in huge numbers every minute of every day right across the state, right across those 430,000 hectares that were promised protection.
Not only does logging continue, but a report released today has shown that logging has actually INCREASED in the areas that were meant to be protected!
As the report points out Forestry Tasmania (FT) were actually meant to implement a moratorium close to a year ago now. This was meant to cover 572,000 hectares and be in place by March 15th 2010. Yet logging continued, despite the Tasmanian Environment Minister writing to FT and formally directing them to reschedule coupes, in line with the agreed moratorium.
In September 2010 FT were given 12.5 million dollars of tax payers money in order to fund their work in rescheduling logging out of the proposed new reserves. They took the money. But the logging continued!
Then recently we saw the so-called “conservation agreement” signed. Instead of protecting this forest, this locked in continued logging. As the new report explains the agreement allows FT to “log its planned 1,900 hectares within the new forest reserves during the first half of 2012. This means the Conservation Agreement protected only those forests that Forestry Tasmanian had not included in logging plans. In other words, it provided temporary protection for forests that were not going to be logged and allows business as usual logging of contentious areas“
So where has this whole process lead to, for the forests? Well, the report confirms that FT’s “logging operations within the 430,000 hectares are greater than even before it’s wood supply obligation was halved and before the conservation commitments given by the Premier and Prime Minister”
In their original plan they would have provided 36% of the high quality wood saw log supply for the area nominated protection. Yet, instead of rescheduling to source this elsewhere, as the IGA directed, they are now sources 44% of the wood from the area that should have been protected. And the figure was as high as 50% in november and december 2010.
In their original plan FT had less than a quarter of the coupes across the state falling within the 430,000 hectares nominated for protection. Now? Instead of decreasing the amount of logging in the area meant to be protected by a conservation agreement…. almost 40% of the state’s logging coupes are now inside that area ear-marked for protection.
This becomes even more ridiculous when you take into account the fact that the demand for wood has actually decreased due to the exit of Gunns Ltd, who were the holders of a contract for 300,000 m3 of wood annually. This exit basically halved the amount of wood required for the industry. Yet, FT have increased the amount of logging in high conservation value forests.
All those numbers can get a bit confusing. So, here it is in a pie-chart (from the ENGO’s report):
The government really does have a lot to answer for! To promise protection of an area and then allow it to be logged at an increased rate is an absolute scandal!
It is even more critical now that I am here, in this tree, exposing this ongoing logging. The government and Forestry Tasmania cannot be allowed to get away such an abuse of people’s trust, misuse of public money and wanton destruction of the forests.
Please join us next Wednesday in a global call for these forests to be protected.
Miranda
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 56
It is such a quiet and still night that I can hear the water rushing in the nearby creeks. The trees are glowing silver in the moonlight. Not a leaf moving in the still air. It’s incredible how much this forest can change day by day. Down below me, the moonlight makes its way through the upper canopy, slivers of light reaching down to the celery top pines at the base of my tree.
Celery top pines are amoung the first tree species I began to recognize and be able to name in Tasmania. It’s destinctive leaf shape resembling the top of celery was a useful handy hint to never forgetting its name. In reality those leaves are not really leaves at all, they are phylloclades (modified flattened stems). I guess this is how it gets its botanical name: phyllocladus aspleniifolius. It’s actual leaves are miniscule brown stubs, less than 1mm in size. This conifer is endemic to Tasmania (meaning it grows no where else on earth). It is has it’s orgins in the ancient Gondwanian rainforest and has close releatives growing in the mountains of Borneo and New Guinea.
In an area of Tasmania’s Huon Valley that is known as the Picton logging operations have begun in coupe PC024B. This ancient forest ecosystem is home to a diversity of rainforest species including celery top pine. The Huon Valley Environment Centre conducted citizen science in area. A sample of a celery top pine that had been logged was analysed. Using dendochronological techniques the group found the tree to have been around 280 years old. To put this in context, the group noted in their media release that the tree would have been growing already in that forest when the Huon Valley was explored by D’Entrecasteaux in 1792. While perhaps still in its early life (the tree could have lived to possibly 800 years if it had been given the chance) it is well and truly an old growth tree. This tree was felled as part of a logging operation that is being conducted to provided wood for a company that is currently claiming to use only regrowth!
The newly launched website www.taann.com.au which has been set up by environmental groups to expose the truth about Ta Ann’s activities in Tasmania, provided a rebuttal to some of the recent misleading claims made by the company. Here is part of their response to this issue about regrowth:
“It is the origin of the logs that is the issue, not their size. Ta Ann implies that because they use regrowth logs there is no adverse environmental impact. They exploit a misapprehension that regrowth is always from areas that have been extensively logged and replanted, but this is not the case in Tasmania”
The sample of celery top pine (aged approx 280 years) was displayed on Parliament lawns by the Huon Valley Environment Center
The Picton valley continues to be decimated. This is an area in close proximity to a Indigenous heritage cave system of global significance, located in nearby threatened forest. This forest should have been safely guarded by a conservation agreement right now. The evidence has been made clear that the reason this coupe (and 42 others) was excluded from that agreement in order to meet the needs of Ta Ann. To imply that they are an innocent bystander in the destruction of this irreplaceable ecosystem is laughable. Ta Ann Tasmania are driving the ongoing logging of these forests and it is about time they owned up to it.
I know I mention it just about everyday, but I think I’ll say it again- please get on board for the Global 24 Hours of Action! It’s only a week away now, so time to start getting your banners and signs ready!! If you are keen to take part and haven’t let me know already, send me a quick email observertree2011@gmail.com. We need to make this action as big as we can, to send the strongest possible message to Ta Ann’s customer companies. I know that all of you reading this care about these forests. We need to make sure those companies know how much we all care about them too.
Till tomorrow,
Miranda
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 55
Thought you might enjoy this little film I made recently, about a month before I came up this tree. It’s called Harvey Norman and the Homeless Animals. The first part was filmed very close to here, in fact. In the Styx Valley. A logging coupe known as SX09B. The film stars my wonderful mum (though she may be difficult to recognise, being dressed up as a native animal). It also features footage of animals seen on our hidden cameras in this coupe, and the other Tyenna coupes near-by. Hope you enjoy!
I’m writing this as I listen to the sound of rain falling softly on the tarp and the wind rustling leaves outside. It feels so calm compared to last night…another wild and windy tree top adventure! I climbed to the top of my tree – (admittedly not too difficult as it is only a few meters away from the platform). And sat in one of the top most branches, watching the wind rip through the trees around me. Feeling my tree sway and shake, the branches bend, the leaves pushed and pulled, straining as though trying to break free from their stems. All around me the forest was in motion. I could see the trees dancing on the ridges opposite me. They are appear somehow synchronised and haphazard at the same time, as they sway to the beat of the wind. It was all fun and games, until the rain came. It pelted down with no mercy. And the wind whipped at my tarp, ripping it from its eye-lets. Water was gushing into my house, near my bed. As I hurriedly repaired that corner, I turned around to see puddles forming beneath constantly dripping holes in the tarp. A quick and inventive patch up of these with some tape and garbage bags seemed to do the trick, for a moment at least. While I was doing this, the other corner suddenly broke free and the wind drove the rain into my storage area. I had to quickly finish the garbage bag patch up and move on to the new problem. I just hoped that this would be the last one. The wind beat at the tarp so relentlessly that the movement shook lose the tape. Buckets and containers under the leaks was the best I could do at that stage. The calmness of today gave me the reprieve I needed to get those holes and eye-lets fixed. And now it feels comforting and cosy beneath the tarp while the rain falls outside. My fairy lights given to me at christmas time, providing a multicoloured glow of light by which to type.
Hope you’re all as cosy and comfy as me, tonight. Enjoy the movie and I’ll catch you tomorrow.
Miranda
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 53
I want to introduce you to a few new friends I’ve made recently.
The first day we met I woke up early in the morning to the sound of tapping. In my sleepy haze I had a moment of panic, leaning of the side of the platform to peer down below… was someone trying to climb up? No. I settled back into the swag and there it was again, a tapping sound. I looked around, couldn’t see anything, looked under the platform again… nothing. Then I saw her, peek out from behind my solar panel. Carra the Carrawong. I tried ever so quietly to reach for my camera, but she wasn’t fooled. She noticed the movement and off she went. The next morning, she was there again. And once again avoided any photography. On the third morning, she was a bit more curious and a little less timid of me. I managed to capture a few pics of her as she made her way closer and closer into my house.
This is Lizzie. We met on my very first day up here. And like Carra, Lizzie was camera shy to start with. She liked to hang out on the trunk of the tree just where the platform is. But whenever I got out my camera she’d scuttle away. Lizzie became more and more confident with me over time. And it wasn’t long before my tree sit became part of her home too. She enjoyed exploring all around my sit. Sometimes she would see me watching her and sit and watch me for awhile too. Eventually, she seemed content that I was safe and started hanging out with me more often. Then one day I had a realisation – Lizzie wasn’t always the same Lizzie! I noticed one time that her colour was a different shade to the rest of her, like she has lost her tail and it has grown back. The next time I said hello to Lizzie I saw a tail unmarked. So that is how I met Lizzie number 2. Now called Dizzie. And then, not long after I noticed another lizard, slightly smaller than Dizzie, and that is how I met Skinks. Prehaps there are actually hundreds of different lizards? I don’t know, but as time goes on I guess I begin to notice their subtle differences.
This morning Dizzie came running wildly along the inside of the gutter, hurtling towards the end…. Oh no! I cried out. But it was too late. I couldn’t believe it. I sat sitting watching the space where I had seen him plummeting to the ground… it is a very long way down for a little lizard. Not a fall he would be likely to survive. I sat there in shock and devastation. And then suddenly…. Dizzie pops his little face up from the side of the gutter!!! I have never been so happy to see a pair of little lizard eyes! I realised that he must have skidded at the end and pushed the dead leaves out from the gutter… fluttering to the ground. Ah…. I sighed with relief.
Ok, well, I’m not sure if I’d actually say we friends. I guess I’m not the best friend to these guys, because I never really want to hang out! But I feel like if I make an effort to be friendly and give them names I’ll feel a little less intimidated by them. Well, really they don’t all have names. There are far too many. Mostly I just call them all Spidey. Though there is one particular one that as his own name. Mr Scarry Legs. He lives in a little hole in the side of the tree, beside the platform. I think he really should have chosen a bigger house, to be honest, because his little legs are always sticking out! That’s all I ever see of him, these black legs poking out of the hole. He must be off on adventures during the day because his legs only appear as the sun begins to set. (I haven’t managed to get a good photo of him yet, but when I do, I’ll let you know).
Hope you enjoyed meeting some of my Observer Tree friends!
In other exciting news… my tree is beginning to flower! I took a photo the other day of the very first flower to appear on my tree.
Talk to you tomorrow,
Miranda
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 52
So, I guess it’s official. The Observer Tree is going down in history. Today marks day 52 of my time at the top of this tree, making me the new holder of the Tasmanian record for the longest time in a tree. How does it feel to be the new record holder? Well, to be honest, I wish I wasn’t. I wish I didn’t have to spend the last 52 days in this tree watching over this forest…. Because I shouldn’t have to. This forest should have been protected. It is a shame that Peck had to sit in a tree almost five years ago, just over the ridge there, in the middle of the Styx valley, for 51 days. It is a shame that it still needs to be done today. After all the promises made by the government… that these forests still remain under threat.
Although it’s a shame that I have to be here, I’m glad that I am doing it. If the government is going to continue to break their promise and if Ta Ann are going to keep pushing the destruction of these forests… then I just cannot stand by. I do not want to see these forests lost forever. I do not want to see these forests lost in silence, behind locked gates, out of view from the public. These past weeks have been an inspiration, as I have been able to show this forest to people all around the world and I have seen the level of support for these forests that is truly out there.
These past 52 days have been some of the most amazing times. Connecting with this tree and this forest. Getting to know the insects, the birds and animals here. Getting to feel like I am a part of this forest. It has of course held some of challenging times too. Hearing trees felled as logging continues in the area adjacent to me as been difficult on a daily basis. And not knowing how long it will be until the forest is protected. The signing of a false “conservation agreement” that saw no end to the logging of high conservation value forests was also a difficult moment. To hear that an agreement had been finally made, as we had all been waiting for… only to find out that it would allow logging to continue as usual, was devastating. Especially as I sat here and watched over this forests, knowing it has come so close to being protected and now it could be lost forever, all because of the government’s failed promise.
Everyone who supports The Observer Tree, I’d love your support for our upcoming global 24 hours of action. Please get on board, take part in this easy action and help send a message to the companies involved. Help me to show to them that there are people all around the world who want to see these forests protected.
I had a chat to Peck last night. He offered his support for what I am doing. And he also felt that it is such a shame that these kinds of actions are still needed in Tasmania. When will this end? When will these forests be safe?
Check out this footage from Peck’s tree sit:
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 50
I can hardly believe that seven weeks have gone by already! In a way it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. I guess I have kept busy with lots of blogging. And skypeing into all sorts of stalls, festivals and forums too!
Tonight I skyped into the Derwent Valley community forum. It was a great forum and the conversation went for about an hour and half. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to talk to local people who live in this area. There were loads of questions about the forest agreement, Ta Ann, the international day of action, and also some personal ones about the highs and lows I have experienced so far, and the challenges that may be yet to come. Thank you to those who came along. It was really inspiring to hear what everyone had to say. And it’s great to have the local support.
Derwent Valley Community Forum
One of the questions asked tonight was about the claims made by Ta Ann that they are receiving only regrowth logs. The company claims that their machines only take logs of a certain diameter therefore they are only regrowth logs. This is something Ta Ann have tried to use as an excuse, however it is misleading. It is true that they only take logs of a certain diameter. What is also true is that these logs often come from high conservation value and old growth forests. Like the forest I am sitting in right now. The recent report released by the independent schedulers who assessed Forestry Tasmania’s data indicated that the coupes being logged now that are in the area ear-marked for protection are being logged to provide wood to Ta Ann. These are forests that were meant to be protected by the conservation agreement. This forest here has never been logged before. It is not regrowth. It contains mixed ages of trees and mixed species. Some giant old eucalypts like the one I’m sitting in, and some younger ones that have grown from a natural fire event in the landscape many years ago. To destroy this entire forest (and it will be completely destroyed with nothing left at all once they cable log it) to provide wood for Ta Ann means that the company is implicated in the destruction of old growth forests. This is regardless of the size or age of the individual trees they choose to take.
Another question relating to Ta Ann was how much choice do they have in the matter of which forest is cut down. It is up to Ta Ann which logs they choose to accept or not. It is up to Ta Ann if they wish to take wood from high conservation value and old growth forests. They can refuse this wood at any time. Yet, instead they continue to accept these logs and are therefore the current driver for the continued destruction of our ancient forests. That is why it is so important to put pressure on the company to change their policies. One way to do this is to call on their customers, the companies in Japan, to refuse to buy wood from Ta Ann unless they move to a sustainable option. Through this market pressure, we can hopefully bring about a change for Tasmania’s forests and the opportunity for real conservation outcomes. Please take a minute to email the companies through this online action. And tell all your friends about it too!
It’s very exciting to hear plans being made in the local Derwent Valley for an action on Feb 15 as part of the Global 24 Hours of Action. If your thinking of doing something in your local area, don’t forget to let me know as soon as possible. Email me: observertree2011@gmail.com
Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 49
Wow! What an exciting day! Today marks the beginning of an awesome and hard-hitting campaign targeted towards the Japanese companies buying wood from Ta Ann that has come Tasmania’s high conservation value forests. 90% of the Ta Ann group’s plywood is being sold to Japanese companies, including Panasonic, Daiwa House, Sekisui House and Eidai.
For those that haven’t done so already… click here to send an email to those companies, calling on them to stop sourcing wood from native forests.
Today is just the beginning! This campaign has the potential to really create some change for Tasmania’s forests. Many of Japanese companies involved seem to promote themselves in different ways as being environmentally conscious. It is important that they know that purchasing veneer from Ta Ann is implicating them in the ongoing destruction of ancient forests and that people all around the world are calling for this to end.
It is a great lead in to our upcoming Global 24 Hours of Action too. This action will show these companies just how much people around the world want to see the destruction of these forests stopped.
Here are the recommendations being made to the companies:
- Cease to take wood supply from Ta Ann whilst they:
– source wood from highly contentious old growth and high conservation value forests already identified and recommended by the Intergovernmental Agreement on Tasmania’s forests – this is recommended for an area comprising 572 000 hectares
– demand legislated supply from native forests
– fail to meet timber procurement guidelines set down by your company
- Correct any claims regarding wood source and the ecological sustainability of Ta Ann’s product
- Request a genuine plantation-only wood source for product from Tasmanian forests
- Require Ta Ann to move to a plantation-only wood supply within a defined period, making a rapid transition out of native forests
- Require that the wood supply from Tasmania meets timber procurement guidelines that specifically exclude the purchase of timber made from Australia’s high conservation value native forests, and from primary forests overseas. Forests like those in Tasmania, which are identified for protection by all environment groups, should be excluded. In addition, such policies need to give preference to plantation timber with full Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. PEFC certification is totally inadequate for Australian product.
Thanks to our friends at Huon Valley Environment Center, The Last Stand and Markets for Change for all their awesome work on today’s campaign launch. For more information check out: www.taann.com.au
Stay tuned for more details on Ta Ann and the campaign. And don’t forget to add your name to the cyber action!
Hope you all had a great day! Sorry for not blogging yesterday. Last night was a very hectic evening, with some wild winds! My tarp just didn’t want to stay hooked into the guttering. Even when I put 20ltr water container there to hold it down, the wind just flipped it up! It was hard to stay completly dry, but I managed to fair okay in the end. It was definitely the windiest weather I’ve had so far up here. The new wind generator was getting a good run though!
Talk to you tomorrow,
Miranda
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