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WHEN Yanchep beekeeper Roy Murphy was able to get in to check where he kept some of his bees earlier this week all he found was some burnt honey and bits and pieces of what were once beehives.
When the Yanchep bushfire burnt land adjacent to Yanchep Beach Rd on Wednesday, December 11 it swept through Mr Murphy’s beehives before burning the only house lost in the incident and Yanchep Service Station.
Mr Murphy said he had had about 80 beehives in the area.
There were about 60-80,000 bees in each of the about 65 working beehives and about 30,000 bees in each of the remaining smaller beehives.
“Put that into numbers and it’s a fair bit of livestock,’’ he said.
He said the loss of flora in the area was devastating.
“I’m just a beekeeper working the floor but roughly I’d say a minimum of five years to where I can even come back in here and work the area.
“There’s a lot of banksia and so forth through here (and) a lot of marri but the main one the parrot bush – the banksia sessilis – that is around here that will take years to recover.
“It will come back thicker but it will take a lot of years until we get to that because walking through it it’s all gone.
He said he was still working out how much the bushfire had cost him but counting the hives and the honey etc it would be easily $100,000.
He bought the hives as flat packs and put them together himself and made the all the lids from scratch.
The hives he has elsewhere will keep a bit of honey available for his clients but it could take him from two to two and a half years to recover financially.
He feels for the people affected by the bushfires over east and said there was talk about the kangaroos and other things but no mention of the flora lost.
“I live off the bush the flora is my asset (and) it’s very hard as a beekeeper to find (good) areas.
The Yanchep bushfire burnt about 13,000ha between Wanneroo Rd, Yanchep, Seatrees and Breakwater estates, Two Rocks and Woodridge during the past week.
During that time firefighters from Parks and Wildlife Service, Bush Fire Service, Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service, Volunteer Fire and Emergency Services and the Career Fire and Rescue Service saved more than 6000 homes in the area.

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