The sunlight is clear and normal early in the day, but by mid-morning, it has returned to that nervewracking shade of apocalyptic orange which indicates just how much the world is off-kilter here.
It remains unpleasant to breathe, and we are quite removed from the thick of the action. How much worse would it have to be closer to the epicentres?
Weather conditions are not set to improve for the next few days. Fires are erupting, sending areas into emergency status, before being somehow managed - however temporarily.
Our hills seem comparatively quiet tonight; no armies of embers glowing in the dark. Some billows of smoke from a different hill - far enough removed from the ones with high fire activity that it is easy to imagine the smoke comes from backburning efforts.
We pull information from the news, the RFS website, the RFS app and texts, and RFS twitter - trying to get an ongoing picture of our bit of the
30,000 40,000 hectare fire.
And we wait.
ReeDaBee
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