BUSH FIRES
Update
January 2020
On January 2nd a lightening strike started a fire on Mt Coopracambra. We were advised to evacuate.
JANUARY 2020
On January 2nd a lightening strike started a fire on Mt Coopracambra. We were advised to evacuate.
Mt Coopracambra is a mountain that sits deep in the Genoa Wilderness Area 12km west of Yambulla. This area is inaccessible to fire fighters who were already stretched throughout the region (Mallacoota had burnt 2 days prior). We were advised to evacuate. The authorities knew this fire would be catastrophic.
On January 4th, with a southerly wind change, the fire had a 10km front that swept through and burnt over 100,000 hectares of the region.
We watched from Sydney. Following the Geoscience Australia website with updates of where satellites were recording heat and the Rural Fire Service map, all indications were that the fire had swept through our area.
Amazingly our weather station, which is mounted on the front of the house, kept sending updates. So we knew that somehow, not only was the house still standing but the shed which houses the solar panels to power the weather station and the internet, must have also been spared.
Feel at home in our secluded, architect-designed off-grid guest lodge. Surrounded by nothing but nature as far as the eye can see.
Cool and breezy inthe summer and cosy with wood-fired central heatingin the winter.
We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples as the first inhabitants and traditional custodians of the Yambulla valley and surrounding areas.
We recognise and value their continuing connection to the land and culture.
On January 2nd a lightening strike started a fire on Mt Coopracambra. We were advised to evacuate.
JANUARY 2020
On January 2nd a lightening strike started a fire on Mt Coopracambra. We were advised to evacuate.
Mt Coopracambra is a mountain that sits deep in the Genoa Wilderness Area 12km west of Yambulla. This area is inaccessible to fire fighters who were already stretched throughout the region (Mallacoota had burnt 2 days prior). We were advised to evacuate. The authorities knew this fire would be catastrophic.
On January 4th, with a southerly wind change, the fire had a 10km front that swept through and burnt over 100,000 hectares of the region.
We watched from Sydney. Following the Geoscience Australia website with updates of where satellites were recording heat and the Rural Fire Service map, all indications were that the fire had swept through our area.
Amazingly our weather station, which is mounted on the front of the house, kept sending updates. So we knew that somehow, not only was the house still standing but the shed which houses the solar panels to power the weather station and the internet, must have also been spared.
