RE: Smoke on the mountains, choppers in the sky.

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One tends to forget the Cape has dry Summers, fires caught by strong winds wipe out much, yet also do good for some plant life.

Nice photography share, did not know about the fires flaring up once again obviously not newsworthy enough with all the flooding up in Limpopo region.

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I just explained elsewhere that the protea bushes and the fynbos would not last if they had no fires occasionally. Controlled fires mind you and it's always the wild fires that create the damages.

The wind direction has changed overnight and now it is blowing from behind the mountains into our area.

Definitely not a pleasant sight and the wind is too strong for the choppers to do their work.

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Cloud draped over the mountain looks good, knowing it is fire related not so good.

Drakensberg mountains also do controlled burning for the new grasses with certain plants that require burning to sustain the land.

Sounds like we in for more rains coming down the East of Africa the flooding inland is not over, possibility of it reaching us tomorrow is highly likely.

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I love to take photos of the clouds draped over the mountains and they were still struggling with that fire today.

Yes, I saw the fire breaks in the Berg, but in our case arsonists simply walk ove the fire breaks and set the grass alight on the other side. We hear on the radio today that some night cameras show how a guy walks up to a small bush to set it alight. I often wonder about the state of a peson's mind when they start a fire. Do they consider the suffering of animals and also people that might persish in the fire?

As if you guys haven't had enough rain and I was so surprised to see the flooding in the Kruger National Park.

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