The Wooroloo Bushfire Art Trail was something I only found out about last month when I visited the new Bells Rapids Lookout in Brigadoon. It was here that one of the sculptures has been placed. I haven't added that particular sculpture in this series as I had so many issues uploading my photos for this post.
The Wooroloo Bushfire Art Trail is a community art project which was established in 2021 after the devastating fire that year. Although the focus was on the 86 houses and two fire trucks that were lost. I can't fathom the number of animals, birds and reptiles killed in this horrendous fire.
The fire burnt across 27,000 acres or 10,900 hectares.
I think that this art trail is a beautiful way to remember the tragedy. As I drove from the starting point in Mundaring where the first sculpture is Squawky Hollow my thoughts were immediately taken to the wildlife of the fire.
The second is A Little Magic in Wooroloo. I captured various angles of this bike in the sky.
Close by to this also still in Wooroloo is Resilience, this is of a balga/grass tree and how resilient these are. Weeks after the fire they amazingly began sprouting. The fresh green shoots standing out across the blackened landscape.
It was then a short drive to Gidgegunup where two more sculptures can be found.
Reborn is at the oval in Gidgegunup and took me a few moments to locate once I arrived. There's also a wonderful mural of new holland honey eaters which I've included.
Life Finds A Way is located at the Gidgegunup Showground. I found it difficult to get good photographs of this piece as there was a lot of activity going on in preparation for the annual show.
Then it was on to Bullsbrook and the final piece of the trail. New Pasture took some locating as when I arrived at the Bullsbrook Community Centre I was told by locals there was only a statue of an owl. When they finally showed me where it was, it was the final piece of a horses head.
I was somewhat confused as to how it could have been taken as a sculpture of an owl, but I guess people see what they see.
I also included a colourful mural I noticed at the Community Centre...
