Late yesterday afternoon my drive home was abruptly interupted. I actually took a detour to buy my wife flowers – hint hint to the married guys – and suddenly the sound of choppers filled the sky. Two water choppers flying back and forth to blast the life out of a fire on the central island in Carine Glades Swamp.
Seems some “teenager guys” [though this is an allegedly!!!" had once again set fire to the native fauna sanctuary. By the time I arrived the main blaze had been quelled but I still got some pics of the airborne & seaborne assault and the mopping up. Fortunately I only had one camera and an 85mm portrait lens and a wide - no long telephoto. But the lighting was fabulous for it.
Enjoy a few of the pics - one of the choppers dumping his water bomb load in seconds,... and then some great ground shots of the hovercraft assault.
Click on READ MORE [below] to see fabulous pics of the ground force (our fearless fire brigade) using a small hovercraft to launch a seaborne assault (crossing the 25 metres of water to the central island) following the air bombing. The massing spectators loved it.
