LIFE'S A BEACH: I'm Still Here

.....in one form or another!! Where has the week gone? I don't know but I do know I haven't had time to blog! Nor keep up with my POMs. Nor down load photos. Nor update "February is South America month! Nor mow lawns or top the roses. Nor do much house work (who really cares about the last one :).

Anyway this little note will have to do for now - It's breakfast time DON'T LOOK AT THE POST TIME!! I've been lazy and had a leep in, for those that don't speak Rori, it's a sleep in :)

But back to reality and the reality is while I can sleep in, our neighbours in Victoria are still trying to eliminate huge fires that fortunately at this very small point in time are semi under control and not an immediate threat to any towns or homes, BUT, it's heating up again and the danger is still there. Many hundreds of people are living in tents and borrowed accommodation, many hundreds are mourning the loss of family and friends, houses and whole townships.

Before I share some more koala survival photos (thanks Kylie) I'll share a quote from the morning newspaper The Advertiser:

FIREBALL FROM HELL
'At 5:15pm on Saturday it was business as usual in sleepy Marysville. Most of the town's 590 residents were locked inside their airconditioned homes watching TV to escape the heat. Thirty minutes later the town was gone.'

We've said "How could this possibly happen, why didn't they all get out well before?" Well, it seems that the speed, force and ferocity was just overwhelmingly worse than anyone could ever imagine and now it is all ashes.

And then it seems the cruelest irony that at the top end of our country the force of floods has had a devastating effect on people, towns, farms and animals as well, but fortunately not the loss of human life.

So on to our Koala pics...

The Koala is not the friendliest of animals