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Evolutionary Landscape
Spring Bay Mill
Aerial image of the Hard Stand area. Mounds of excess soil and left over woodchip compost. An estimated 3000 cubic metres of what was waste organic leftovers, was reused to form absorbent mounds that soak up excess rainwater and reduce rain water flow, off the impermeable hard flat, that once carried the logs from the Mill.
Left over water flows into settling ponds at the rear.
The mounds were intended to be planted with native grasses and other local monocot's. Planting began in 2021.
The "Aeolian Dunes" mounds at the Amphitheatre site. Plants used in this area were sourced from areas up to 50 km from the site. So genetic provenance was kept as local as possible.
Image to the right: The "Aeolian Dunes" mounds six months after planting.
Each mound design was inspired by the wind shaped sand dunes that are found in desert conditions around the world and additionally other worlds including the planet Mars.
"Aeolian" refers to the mounds shape and form and the way the wind shapes them. These are classic "Barchan" shaped dunes, with the odd "Parabolic" dune shape.
Coastlines around the world also exhibit these dune shapes.
"I was inspired by the natural perfection that nature shares" Marcus Ragus.
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