Fire to the south

Looking through the evacuation centre (and past our tiny camper trailer at left), with a fire to the south creating a cloud that sheltered us from the sun. Very hot conditions and strong north westerly winds were driving the fires, but we "escaped a bullet" because of opposing coastal sea breezes, which helped the firefighters. This day, Canberra (Australia's capital city, about 100km inland) reached a new record temperature of 43.6.

I am glad to advise that we now are home again and all is well with us. I also have written an article on the fires.