Intrepid fire fighters

 

There has been a fire travelling down the river here for over a week. Monday night it was close enough for Fire and Rescue to burn two fire breaks very close to the caravan park.


So Monday night, just in case, my closest neighbour and I spent three hours soaking our camp site and hers, while watching embers floating over head and pouncing on them before they could take.
K and my neighbour's partner used the fire hoses to kill anything that landed on the roof and garden of the bistro. While the fire fighters managed the burn off. Very exciting.

Imagine if you can the tourists who grabbed a slab and their chairs and sat in the bistro watching the whole operation with no idea that their own rigs were getting showered by embers. (I'm too polite to use the words that come to mind to describe this behaviour) You can just see them sitting in the middle of the Bistro in this photo.



Fire is still burning. Not close to us.


Life in the outback!  Never boring. Always fun.




Cheers Sue


A Ferg on the Move