Fires and Floods

The terrible bushfires happening in Australia are quite a long way from where I live, thankfully. It sounds as though it was a terrifying ordeal for those in the path of the fires. I live half way approximately between the Victorian fires and the floods in North Queensland. I grew up in a town in Northern New South Wales where it flooded a few times a year when I was a child, and my Dad grew up in Ingham which is currently under water.

I saw him yesterday and he was talking about the floods that occured there when he was a child, and said that one day he was looking over the balcony to the flood waters below, only to see a decent sized crocodile swim in through the back gate and then out the front! Scary.