Fires in Australia
Greetings from Manly (the place, not the self-describing adjective). This very short post is about the wildfires in South Australia.
We are still in Sydney (more about that in a later post). We are having a late breakfast about 1,000 kilometers from where the wildfires are.
Today we are driving down towards Melbourne, but we will stay well east of the danger areas. It seems a little strange to be driving toward a page 1 disaster, but it is a huge country, 99.999% of which is not on fire.
We will write a longer post once we get Internet access. The plan is to stay overnight halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, breaking the ten-hour drive into two days.
We are glad to be getting out and seeing some more of Australia. The next few weeks we will be in pretty much continuous motion. We are also glad, though, that we will have several days in Sydney at the end of the month, before we head out to New Zealand.
coco said,
February 9, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Yes, I’ve been wondering about the fires there and You guys. You keep following the world news front page. Tracy Caulkins and Mark Stockwell live in Brisbane and we so want to go visit before their kids are teenagers. I belive them to be famous in all of Australia since I ask every Australian I meet if they know them and they always say “Yea Mate! of course!” Of course, Tracy is/was famous in Nashville for the longest time. Swimmers today only see the record still on the wall at the Caulkins swim center.
I’m going to try and keep Latte man from reading your blogs about New Zealand. we were supposed to be there this month! Oh well, scope it out for us, and pick out a vacation house for next year.
xoxox
coco