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Jim Geddes reported, “The recovery and the regeneration of the landscape is quite stunning at the present time! All the trees that we've planted are doing well. There are also many volunteer (native) germinations. We have had the 4th wettest July on record and Spring flowers are everywhere. We are seeing plant species we have never seen before that are fire responsive.”
Koalas in the Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary fared better. Just over a year later, Jim Geddes points out a brown-grey, furry ball wedged in the fork of a eucalyptus tree in the car park of the wildlife sanctuary, located at the western and most severely damaged end of the island.
Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary was one of several iconic Kangaroo Island destinations destroyed in the summer's bushfires. Co-owner Jim Geddes is hoping to rebuild once his insurance claim is sorted out and has been overseeing the recovery effort since the fire tore through on the afternoon of January 3, 2020.