Less than a week till christmas but with 25′C and sun it’s hard for me to get into the christmas spirit (I’m really starting to get a hang of the kite-boarding though). Christmas eve we will spend in Geelong with Bec’s mums side of the family (as they are german they celebrate christmas eve) but both Bec and I are working the rest of the days (I’m on 24h callout duty) so we’re basically just looking forwards to heading off to Africa on our honeymoon in a week and a half So Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!

There are lots of bush fires around the country at the moment and summer has hardly begun, today melbourne is covered in smoke from fires up in the mountains east of us. Visibility is down to maybe 500m when it’s at it’s worst and I can feel the smell as soon as I woke up this morning. So far not many houses has dissapeared but aroung 750 000 Hectares (or coming up towards 1.5 million soccer fields) have been burnt down and still afet two weeks the fires continue. They stardet as a lot of individual fires after a thunder storm, (here they have “dry thunder storms” = no rain) but have merged into a few massive fire fronts, see pictures