Bushfire ramblings continued.

Like many other Aussie bloggers (or perhaps those from Victoria in particular), I just can't get motivated to write about anything else at the moment. As I said in the previous post, we are bombarded 24/7 by the media with updates on the fires, so it gets into one's brain and won't go away.

It doesn't help matters when you see something that brings it home to you in a different way. I was on my way to work this morning, and along one of the main roads going out of Eltham, I saw three dead kangaroos, a dead fox and a dead possum. It isn't unusual to see one animal now and then, that has been hit by a car, but to see that many within a hundred yards is horrible. I phoned Melbourne's talk back radio station later that day, and when I got through to speak to Dennis Walters, I said I was calling to alert his listeners to the plight of animals which have escaped the fires, and are now making their way into the outer suburbs in search of water and food. Native animals used to bushland are not used to roads, and even less familiar with fast cars in great numbers. I begged people to be aware that there will be many more of these animals in the suburbs from now on, and to slow down and watch out for them. Dennis seemed to think this was a good phone call, and he put me into a draw for a new car at some stage in the future. Ken and his sister both listen to 3AW, and heard my call, so I got ribbed tonight about who was going to drive the new car when I won it! I told them if I did win, I'd donate it to one of the bushfire victims who has lost their car in the fires.

In the meantime, have a look at this news item about the animals we have lost in Victoria. There is a link to the film taken of the CFA worker giving a koala a drink of water out of his water bottle.