After nearly 11 months we have finally arrived back in our home state. It’s certainly different to when we left all those months ago. The drive down from Eden to Mallacoota was rather solemn, basically the whole area had been burnt in the fires in that ravaged this part of Australia in December/January.

We’d seen the remnants of the fires coming down the south coast of NSW but this was different, so much forest was devastated by the fires. Coming into Mallacoota, it was easy to see why the town was cut off for so long and how lucky everyone was that the firefighters managed to save the town. Although many houses were raised and there are new houses being built now. We have 4 days here, hopefully Susan can get some fishing in despite the weather forecast looking a bit bleak for the next few days.