21 February 2012

Moving day tomorrow. We had planned to go south but there is a big bushfire between us and our destination, so will reverse the planned route and go east first then south later when the fire is safely out. This is the same fire that blanketed Perth in smoke late last week. The smoke cleared so we thought it was out. The television reception here is pretty ordinary, in fact it is downright woeful, all we get is crackle and pixilation most of the time, so we rely on the internet for our news, and it is telling us there have been evacuations and all hell is breaking loose so we will stay as far from there as we can for now. 28,000 hectares is not just someones back paddock, well it would be if we were up north, but down here that is a sizeable chunk of territory most of which is national park or blue gum forestry projects. Lots of fuel for a fire.