Victorian Bushfires

As many of you know, my sister lives a few kilometres out of Omeo on 20 or so acres in a picturesque little spot. She and Peter stayed and fought during the last serious bushfires a couple of years ago to save their home. So far the 2006/7 fires have not affected them. Swift's Creek, which is about 50 kilometres south of where they are, was expecting burning embers to hit the town yesterday.

These were the scenes outside their Omeo home yesterday. Everything is tinder dry and ready to burn. The smoke is from fires some way to the north.

The winds pushing the flames are more likely to be from the north and push the fires southwards. In most cases this is away from Omeo and where they live. She was saying that the main road to the south connecting Omeo to Bruthen is closed. Their only 'way out' at this stage is over the top of Mt Hotham.

Meanwhile here on the Sunshine Coast the rain clouds are clearing slowly and the sun is able to pop its head out again. Not too hot, (Victoria has all the hot weather at the moment) but this morning after we arrived back home after an 11 kilometre bike ride the humidity was 92% after the rainy weather! Now just before 11 am it is about 29 degrees and the humidity has dropped to 85%. This is much higher than usual! The pool is looking good for this afternoon!