Victoria Burns
This photo from Sale, where the bushfire in the hills is burning around 6000 hectares at the moment and pouring smoke into the air clearly visible from space.
The ash cloud reflecting the red glow of the burning mountains stretched to Bairnsdale, shown in the second picture, taken mid afternoon.
Trying to explain to staff at work the sheer size of the area on fire was met with disbelief. Putting it in terms relative to the size of Okinawa Island, they could not comprehend a fire this large. Nor did it seem to bode well with them that bushfires on this scale are a regular occurrence in Australia. I read somewhere today that south eastern Australia is the part of the world that burns the most, most often.
The third picture is from a NASA satellite showing the smoke cloud stretching up over central New South Wales.
I am hoping things calm down over the next week - because I shall be home for Christmas, and I'd really not like my country to be still largely on fire when I'm there.
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