Okay so this view to the south is where all the shit gets real for humans re bushfires. If you've been following, West, North and East of the firetower are largely national park areas with little or no people living in the area. To the south of the firetower however are roads, farms, towns and primary real estate.
Because there are so many more people living or moving in this area, our tower job is kinda obsolete. We will spot, plot, report and then forget all smokes we see to the south. We know heaps of people and the brigades will be on it already. But I've spotted three or four bushfires in the north so far this week and they haven;t been half so sexy in the media.
Yes, I got it. I bet the farmers keep a good eye out for fires. xx
ReplyDeleteThey're quite often on the brigades too
DeleteI like your maps. Very 18th century.
ReplyDeletePerhaps that's because they are profiles, in a ships-sailing-past-the-colony kind of way?
DeleteYes - the 18th C. travel maps were the road running across the page from top to bottom (beginning to end) with notable features on the way.
DeleteSo for example, Conspicuous Cliffs was named by a Frenchman who sailed by and thought, oh they are quite conspicuous cliffs! Really?
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