Sulphur-crested cockatoos are too smart for their own good, and we have many of them here. This one likes to turn up a few times a day, do a balance beam routine on the railing, and then take off when it gets in trouble for nibbling on the wood!
Tag Archives: Canberra
What a difference a few hours make.
Photographs from the same spot in Canberra – a few hours apart. The picture HERE is of a waterbomber trying to stop the fires before they hit us. About three hours later, and the fire is here …
Filed under Australia, Canberra, Photography
DC-10 Firefighting Plane in Canberra
One of the American DC-10 water tankers flying directly over my house to the fires near us in Canberra this afternoon. The aircraft activity over the south of Canberra has been running nonstop since before dawn.
It seems so strange to me that in other parts of Canberra nobody would even know any of this is happening …
The sky was crazily blue for the first time in weeks, but the smoke is back now.
Filed under Australia, Canberra, Photography
DC-10 Water Tanker
The DC-10 – a firefighting water tanker from Alabama, USA – has been flying over my house, to and from the bushfires, for days. I finally got a shot of it just before three this afternoon.
Filed under Australia, Canberra, Photography
The Smoke is Back in Canberra
After the horror fires that hit the Canberra region a couple of days ago (and are still burning), the awful muddy yellow smoke has again taken over Australia’s capital city.
Here are some pictures from around 5pm today. The first is an aeroplane flying over our house – on its way back from the nearby fire front. The second is a currawong in a tree in our garden.
Filed under Australia, Canberra, Photography
Canberra Bushfires
We haven’t had the internet all day because of the bushfires in and around Canberra, but here’s what we were looking at yesterday: the fire coming over the mountains and down towards us. They’ve been waterbombing nonstop since yesterday (including with the big American DC-10), and they stopped the flames before they reached the houses, but we’ve been told the fire is going to burn for weeks.
So, yeah, despite what everyone seems to think, the fires in Australia still very much exist.
Filed under Australia, Canberra, Photography
