On Saturday I spoke about how vandals had got to the Wanaka tree and taken off a couple of branches and I said I would talk about some other things that have happened here.
Today I want to talk about 3 iconic photography landmarks that you can no longer photograph here. I know that things can happen, and they are beyond our control, but sometimes stuff happens that is just vandalism.
Two of these are nature, and one is not.
The first one I want to talk about is the tree below at a place called Dog Rocks on the other side of Geelong. There is a tree there that most photographers around Melbourne and Geelong love to go and take photos, especially at sunset.
The tree is on public land so anyone can go there to take photos.
Here are some photos of it.
The tree is gone now.
I don’t know when it happened but apparently, some people went there and just chopped it down. No idea why, no one knows. Spite, who knows? It is just horrible that people would think it was okay to do that.
The next place is Tenby Point where we had our own Wanaka tree, well sort of. I did always find this a hard tree to photograph. You had to be there kind of mid tide, which I only managed to do once.
It is part of a mangrove and, again, public land so anyone could go there to take photos.
So apparently, this one is gone, too. From what I can find out online, it was lost during a storm. I can’t verify that, but it doesn’t matter, it is gone.
I have talked about the following one before. This jetty was destroyed not long after I took these images. I was lucky I went when I did. I only got there once.
I do love the photos I got, but it would have been nice to have been able to go back.
From what I heard a boat ran into it during a storm. I don’t know if that is what happened, but it is definitely gone now.
It is always so sad to hear stories like this. You can’t be angry when it is an accident or nature, but when an a*holes does it on purpose, that really makes me angry.
