In the south-west of Australia is the wine region of Margaret River. When in 1800 the first farmers arrived from England after a journey of many months in the area, there was a huge disappointment. Instead of the promised pasture where the cows could graze, they found hundreds of miles of forest with giant Kari trees which can sometimes reach 70 meters height. All these trees had to be felled by hand before it was good farmland. But then in the sixties, most trees were processed into wood for co... | more