As you will all know there have been and still are a lot of bushfires in Australia. Luckily not so much around Perth. One house has burnt, which was situated in 'the Hills' which is about 15km east of CBD. On the news they told that the main reason why the house burned down to the ground was that the evaporative air-conditioning was on, which was 'inhaling' burning bits and pieces from outside.
So far about 500.000ha have been burned in Australia, which is about 1/10 of Holland. To give you an idea, this is whole of NoordBrabant or so.
Anyway, over to us:
Next week we have the whole week off. We realised that this is our first Australian holiday!!
Talking about bushfires, in the bushfire season people are supposed to be very careful, and there are rules (laws) in place that should help to prevent fires from extending. The block of land on the right and the left of our house is not built up yet. The owners have to make sure that at the beginning of the fire-danger season (half of October) they cut all the weeds on their block, so if a fire starts, it will not easily expand. The owners of those blocks had not done that (by the end of November) so we called the county to ask what is supposed to be done. The county then told us that they had already been given fines (AUS 750,=) for not doing it, and given one week to prevent the county having to do it (and than paying far bigger fines).
As of last week they both have done that.
Two weeks ago the photoclub had their end-of-year function. Again a photo competition, but this time with food and drinks. Entries for the competition had to be photos that have been entered before (in one of the monthly competitions). Of course Peter has entered some photos. And one of his photos won the 2nd price (aud 20 voucher) in the 'slide'-competition.
The photo that won was this one:
And one other photo that we would like you to see is one Peter took a week ago, just in our backyard. The photo is named "David & Goliath":
