A week later

We are a bit over the initial dismay about the fire and are making plans to turn it into an opportunity to make some changes to the arboretum. First priority is still to secure the water supply. It must have been quite a blaze with all the grass in the rondavel to burn the buried pipe. We had to dig it up and replace a section.

Not much can be done to save the building. Rob cleaned it out and we removed the wire etc.

The bird hide is also badly damaged and was a bit of a hazard so we demolished it as carefully as we could so we can use the material at some future date to build a new one. Quite tricky as you can see:

Encouraging signs of regrowth are already there, some fire lilies and millions of Protea seeds ready to germinate.