The Light Weaver Chronicles: July 2012

Just recently I ventured deep into the beautiful forests of the Styx Valley to photograph a very exceptional person - Miranda Gibson. She has been living 60m up a huge Eucalyptus Regnans tree on a tiny wooden platform aptly named 'Observer Tree' for over half a year now - just breaking the Australian Record this week for treesitting. She has been regularly posting an amazing blog of her journey and of the situation with the forest agreements which has reached people all around the world...

http://observertree.org/

The views are incredible up there but braving freezing temperatures, high winds and so much isolation is not for the faint hearted - not to mention heights! I have so much respect for her incredible passion to save the high conservation forests of the region. She is committed to staying up there for as long as is needed until the government honours their promise to place the forest under a conservation agreement.

It was quite an adventure getting up there to see her.

3hrs driving, 2.5 hrs bushwalking (including a bit of - um - which way was it again on the way back - oops!) and a 200 foot climb and abseil down in the dark later...not to mention a blister or two (hey, I've ever tried to climb 200 feet up a rope before!) Here are a few of the images...