Fire ripped through East Lynne on December 2 and 3, 2019, scorching native forest and killing wildlife.
Some life forms are hardier than others, and some thrive on flame.
Determined to photosynthesise, eucalyptus trees are sprouting red beards and green whiskers from blackened necks. Check out the gallery above.
Cycads can live for more than 100 years and some may even have survived the fire which tore through the area in the 1950s to the coast.
Also known as burrawangs, the spiky, poisonous palms were among the first to send shoots spearing towards the sun in December.
This one has survived road clearing, stubbornly growing sideways from the embankment, then shooting vertically up.
Its hard trunk casing was charred in the fire and is now covered in fresh dirt from vehicles or perhaps a creature digging above.
Wildlife carers are leaving out water and food for marsupials and birds who survived the twin fires, which came from first from the north-west and the following night from the south.
Reptiles are also on the move, with lace monitors, red-belly black snakes, pythons and other species hunting frogs and rodents.
We've caught some beautiful moments, but missed plenty. One we let slip away was a rare photo of a 30cm rose-bellied whip snake in the process of swallowing a lizard on a forest track in late January. To our chagrin, it was deleted before it could be published. Rose faces all round.
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