Out The Back of Kinglake West Hall…Six Months After Black Saturday

Download now or watch on posterous KinglakeWestHall.mov (6317 KB) The Hall at Kinglake West is very intact, with no sign of damage from February’s fires, sitting only a hundred metres or so from the local CFA. However, if you go out the back and look over to the left side, the trees tell an important [...]

Just Near The Kinglake Diner

The Diner itself and the shop next to it are intact, but these trees show how close things were during the February bushfires. Sent from my iPhone

Classic Car Meet Kinglake

Life goes on and there’s still social outings in Kinglake. This is a meet occuring outside Kinglake’s National Park Hotel. Sent from my iPhone

Kinglake West Six Months After Black Saturday

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A Postscript For The Day…

This evening, it was announced on relevent Twitter feeds that the fightfighters had suffered a fatality, one who died when a tree fell near Marysville. Until I check it a bit more, to my knowledge this has been the first firefighter fatality in this particular batch of fires. Our thoughts and condolences go to his [...]

Five Days After Scorched Saturday…

It’s been a long week, and I expect it’s been even longer for the firefighters still working to contain and put out the fires. There’s been some good news after yesterday. Sitepointdotcom eventually heard how we reacted to the unexpected amount of retweets of their own sale/appeal contribution. They graciously helped by recognizing the need [...]