On what was a lovely Spring evening, we were a little surprised to see a bushfire outside our front door.  The surprise is that it is still spring and we have had nothing but wet weather until a week ago.  The fire was about 100 metres from our house.  Reality is that were not at any serious risk as there was no real wind blowing, to carry any embers or push the fire.  No idea how it started, but I am guessing a burn-off gone wrong.  It was contained pretty quickly and oddly enough, it was right behind out volunteer fire station. 
 
I hope this won't be a bad fire year.  Here are some shots: 
This shot will give you some perspective of what I am talking about.  This is how you see my house from the mountain behind us at 1200 metres.  You can see the patch that went up is right next to my house.