Fires to the north

Looking northward across Batemans Bay from near the evacuation centre. There is a major fire to the northwest, but the real concern was a fire just to the left of centre of this image (I suggest viewing large). This fire threatened to engulf residential areas (including ours) further to the right of the image and helicopters were busily waterbombing. As I mentioned with a previous image, the situation also was helped enormously by gentle coastal sea breezes opposing the spread of this fire.