Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

If any of you have been to the central Florida area, you may have at least heard of this wonderful tree named "The Senator." This bald cypress was 3500 years old, making it the 5th oldest tree in the world. Sunday night the tree caught fire and burned to the ground before it could be put out. Initially, the responding firemen found piles of sticks and branches scattered around the base of the tree, and made the assumption that arson was the cause. Now, they are saying it may have been hit by lightning earlier in the week and somehow managed to smolder, undetected, for a week or so before going up in a blaze. Either way, a great loss for all.




http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/17/145342304/one-of-worlds-oldest-cypress-trees-the-senator-burns-in-florida

_________________


Epoch Expeditions is currently participating in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge as part of our pilot expedition, The 400 Challenge. Click the images above for more info or to track our progress in our 3000 mile, cross-atlantic row.

this makes me sad, cause I have never been able to see it in person, and now I never will.

_________________
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr

How does a tree smolder for weeks without burning down and people not even smell it?

I suppose its as possible as kerosene melting steel and man being able to beat nature by producing GMOs to get around something that is only going to perpetuate even worse.

I'm getting sick of this perverse world.

_________________
High carb, low fat, whole foods. Any questions?

I can't stand how society acts so much like a Virus... consume everything until there is nothing left.

_________________
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr

Every day I hate humanity just a little bit more

The tree isnt in a very populated place, and a ways back in a park, and also oddly enough not a very popular tourist destination. I mean, with the mouse and everything else "the city beautiful" has to offer, who wants to drive to the middle of nowhere to see some dumb old tree.... It was a local landmark, and I was about half a mile from it a few days earlier....wish i would have swung by to pay my final respects. After all, it was a very special tree.

_________________


Epoch Expeditions is currently participating in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge as part of our pilot expedition, The 400 Challenge. Click the images above for more info or to track our progress in our 3000 mile, cross-atlantic row.

These place called Earth is just a burning shell

I would definitely have gone out of my way to see it during a visit there! Yea that sucks you didn't get one last look.

_________________
High carb, low fat, whole foods. Any questions?

FYI, http://gizmodo.com/5889581/meth-addict- ... ldest-tree.

_________________
--
Bruce