Brush Fire

For the past week or so we have been staying with a host Michael Davies. Mike lives and works on a palm tree farm where he grows a wide variety of indoor and outdoor trees. He plans to transform some of his property into a campground and paintball field but for now the palms keep him busy enough. Most of the work we have been doing is collecting and transporting large rocks for garden beds and digging up trees to sell. One afternoon as we were working around the farm Mike drove over to us said “hop in, were gonna go help with a brush fire”. On one of his neighbors plots of land a brushfire had started, when this happens it is in everyone’s best interest to lend a hand to make sure the fire doesn’t get too out of control. The local fire brigade started burning fires along the road downwind from where the wild fire had ignited. When we drove up to the blaze the brigade asked us to help out as spotters to make sure no embers jumped across the firewall. After a while, once the firewall had surrounded most of the plot we went back to Mike’s to go for a swim at some water holes in the Palumba National Park. While there, I made an attempt to do some dive spear fishing, and even though I was not successful it was still fun creating my tool and trying it out. We came back to the fires later that night to see some incredible scenes of glowing red bush with plumes of smoke billowing in the backdrop. We drove around the plot checking out the different burns and throughout the drive I couldn’t help but think that my cousin David Soffa would have a field day photographing it. It was truly a beautiful experience.

Hope all is well,

John