A morning walk in the Kenmore Bypass corridor

This comment by Julie Hagans is so good I want to make it a post in its own right:

Doesn’t one day make a difference.  I just completed my morning walk 50 minutes round trip walked the kids to Kenmore South State School and down through the corridor for the proposed Kenmore Bypass. There is increased humidity in the air and light rain over night.  All of a sudden winter seems over and spring is peeking around the corner.  Dark clouds are gathering in the distance and overcast up above.  When I walked through here 2 days ago I see and feel a noticeable difference.  The birds are particularly active this morning all varieties I can see and hear.

A group of rainbow lorrikeets came swooping through over my head and my border collie/kelpie cross dog couldn’t believe it, her eyes and ears watching them intently as they fly on, screeching to each other having an absolute ball, it looked like a race.

The part that is most interesting is when I reach about 2/3 down and the knock knock croak croak sounds of the frogs have intensified since i was here yesterday.  Today we walked slowly because it was something to really witness the abundance of life in the corridor and the changing of the seasons and though I have witnessed this many times it still leaves me incredulous at the wonder of life and how precious it is.

As I moved on I came to the massive gum tree at the bottom of the off leash area and a magnificent kookaburra up high but looking down at us broks into a laugh and it just gave me goose bumps. I looked up at the kookaburra and think to myself I just have to let every one know today how important it is to save this gum tree for you, as it is right in the middle of the corridor and would have to be removed for the proposed road.

To save the creek from obliteration the home of the frogs and the bushes and trees for the lorrikeets to race through. I walked on about another 60 metres and right in front of me another kookaburra stops me in my tracks it is sitting on a branch hanging over a garden fence that backs onto the corridor only about 5 metres away.  He or she was looking straight at us and went full throttle with a laugh that left me with no doubt that the wildlife can’t speak for themselves in this whole Kenmore Bypass debarcle but we can.  Today I will send my thoughts to the powers that be and I urge all of you in Kenmore and beyond to come and take a serious look at the corridor it’s really beautiful it’s not just the land set side for a possible road.  It is magnificent in its own right.  A walk or even a short time spent in this area reminds us that our environmental heritage is so very important. The ancient majestic timelessness of the kookaburra sitting proud in the old gumtree.  We must protect all of this for all our sakes stand up and be proud of our Australian heritage you don’t have to even leave town to experience the outback it is here in Kenmore right under our noses and infront of our eyes.

Enjoy it, love it, it is to important and precious to let the organizers of the Kenmore Bypass take our environmental heritage from us and all our future generations.

Please write to the politicians and demand on saving our Australian environmental heritage.