February 2009

Well today is a cool day it has been 38/41c all week but on Saturday the 7th it got to 45c with winds that nearly bent the trees in half. A day to stay inside with the air conditioning,  hoping the power did not go off.  Not everyone stayed in out of the heat,there have been unbeliveble bush fires in Victoria,  hundred of lives lost and whole towns burn to the ground some of the fires started by people.

The heat did not worry the goats not even bothering to sit in the shade but a koala came into our house yard looking very distresses I thought he may have been looking for water I put some water in a container but he did’nt drink any. He sat himself in a low fork of a Melaleuca tree so I put the garden sprinker on,he sat there with the water spraying on him licking this paws and also licking the bark on the tree. After a while he would move up the tree and sleep then come down to the lower fork and I would put the sprinker back on, he did this for two day but now that it is cooler 25c  he must be feeling better as he has gone back up the top of a very big gum tree.  Had to keep the two dogs shut in their yard as they did not like the koala  intruding on their territory.