Bru, we haven't seen any of Rolf's art work yet, although I have read that it is coming. ( if any of it took more than 10 minutes to paint, it won't be much good..lol ).
Fortunately we haven't suffered from any bushfires in this area yet, although we did have a very wet spring, which means there was lots of early summer growth, which makes ideal bush fire fuel, so we are all on high alert.
The major bush / grass fire which occured on Tuesday ( and unfortunately resulted in nine deaths and three people missing, bush fires produce great heat which can result in bodies being completely burnt ). Was on the Eyre Peninsula in central South Australia, around the City of Port Lincoln.
Interestingly Port Lincoln is the area of Australia with the highest number of Millionaires. All of their wealth comes from the Tuna Fishing Industry. They even farm Tuna, by catching schools of small fish way out to sea then bring them in close to shore in large nets, where they fatten the fish and sell them to Japan.
The owner of the Horse which has won the last two Melbourne Cups ( Australia's richest horse race), lives in Port Lincoln, and named the horse after five girls who work in his fish processing business.
Port Lincoln is on Boston Bay which was named by Whalers from Boston who fished in along the southern coast of Australia in great numbers in the early 1800's. Fortunately the Whales are now returning which is great. And no one is coming from Boston to kill them.
Have a great day everyone ( sorry for the Geography Lesson )
Keep Smiling.. Ron.
[This message has been edited by catmanron (edited January 12, 2005).]
|