On agan, off again.... holy smokes!

Okay, so about 10 days ago the Terrace mountain fire was growing and looking pretty spectacular and grew to about 4,400 hectares in total.

Then the fire teams moved in in earnest as the Glenrosa fires where contained and by yesterday the fire was 90% contained (yay!).

But what a difference a day makes, out in the garden with a friend this morning and we noted that the plumes of smoke seemed to be a bit more energetic and determined (i know difficult to anthropromorphise smoke but we did it!)...

4pm - call from Shaun...get to the window, smoke getting bigger and nearer

6pm - went for a swim (lake like bath water!) - smoke bigger but no fire

8pm - Holy S****! The whole side of the mountain across the lake from us is in flame - apparently there are not many houses in this area but outside the picture to the right is La Casa holiday resort which was evacuated again (the poor chaps only got back in two days ago) and I expect they will have evacuated Fintry which is the next bay to the north as well.

We are safe on this side as the lake sits between us and the fire.

The sunbirds return to roost....

So, yesterday waved a somewhat tearful goodbye to M&D as they returned home after their mini-Canadian adventure involving DIY (lots of - leave a paint tin around and 30 secs later it would be on the wall - S&T take note..!), wine tasting (lots of as well but barely made a dent in the 160, yes that's 3 figures, no decimal point, 160 wineries in the valley) and a late addition to the programme, gourmet ice cream assessment, who knew there were so many establishments to try....well Mum did, well researched!

Will post more our findings later....