Kinglake 2009 and 2013

My sister Mimi was here for a few days just after New Years.   We mostly worked on the house (pics to follow).

But we drove up to Kinglake one afternoon .  She hadn't ever been there.
We used the hairy road via Hurstbridge and stopped where we could and took some photos.   I had taken some from the same road just after the Black Saturday fires - in April 2009.

These photos show the bush just after the fires and now.
I wonder though with climate change, if we are in for extended drought again, will we keep getting such natural recovery?

Just after the fires:

And now: