Our first and hopefully only Bush Fire

As darkness drew in it only made the fire seem closer and look more fierce.
The other interesting thing that was happening was a large group of school kids on a camp about 100 metres from us. They were mainly Aboriginal and as it got darker they started their music and dancing. They had the didgeridoo and sticks playing with their singing. It was rather pleasant but eerie also as you could hear the crackling of the bush burning. Only in Australia!!

The fire had reached the 2nd ridge  and was about 300 mtrs away

We had pulled in our awning and lifted our caravan legs ready to move . You couldn't leave the camp however as the only way out was through were the fire was and the road at night would be extremely difficult. We would of had to leave the caravan behind. The saving grace was the wind or lack of it.Iit completely died out and just after about 10pm it started to die down. Needless to say we didn't get too much sleep. The ranger came round early the next morning to say they were closing the camp site. The wind was now gusting really strong and the expected the whole thing to ignite again by the afternoon. Of course it meant I did not get to climb up to the pools. But we will be back hopefully on the way back from Darwin when all is safe!!!

Even on the drive out in the morning we went past flames on the roadside