Beyond Lake Albina is a view that takes your breath away.

Look closer however, and the view tells of tragedy. In the summer of 2003, forty fires caused by lightning strikes raged through the park, burning over half the area. The effects of those can still be seen seven years later in the bare trunks of mountain ash and snowgums, that from a distance look like snow.

The fires kill mountain ash outright, but new growth is spawn from seeds. The snowgum however is a little more ingenius – the roots of the tree remain alive, and new growth shoots above ground from them.