We've got a bushfire 20 miles to the North of us. Another to the West about the same distance. The areas most affected are the only wild places left out here where Native birds and animals are allowed to live. Everything else has been turned over to Humans and their domestic animals - especially sheep. The whole Grampians mountain range is ablaze. I can't get the images of the Rock Wallabies and the birds and lizards out of my head.
The grasslands and towns are under threat too though, and people like us on isolated properties. Everything is so dry even the short grass burns at a fearsome rate. Two days ago 40,000 sheep burned to death on a bare field.
We'll be ok. We're staying put. Tape the windows fill the buckets with our precious tank water. Hope for a miracle when the wind blows hard from the North tomorrow and the temperature soars over a hundred again.
I love a sunburt county.... Cheers and wish us luck, Joy