December 20th 2019.

The smoke from the fire that devastated our neighbourhood.

Amazingly the fire went around our house but the rest of the property was completely burnt. Most of our sheep were either killed or burnt. Later those burnt were shot by PIRSA as there was no way to help them. The horse and donkey survived but with burns. A Vet came to treat them and then they were taken to a clinic for further treatment.

What a sight to return too.

 

 

It's been awhile but we're coming up to the second anniversary of the bushfire of December 20th 2019. So I thought maybe I should start my Blog again. I'll be looking back to that date, a stinking hot, extremely windy day, that changed our environment. We left our house taking the dogs and caravan. We put the equines and sheep into a grazed field which had a largish dam. We thought we'd be back the same day but that huge black 'cloud' we could see heading our way turned out to be the fire that had started that morning, heading straight to us. It burnt completely around at least five towns and rushed through our neighbourhood that night. Many of our neighbours stayed to fight it. We watched the smoke from our escape town on the River Murray. not knowing what would be left. It would be two days before we were able to return through the dangerous fire zone.