What a relief!

What a relief!    The heatwave is over.   And it happened suddenly too.    There was a slow build up of high cloud, and at about 5 p.m.  the wind sprung up from the south west, and our furniture flew everywhere.  The wind grew stronger and stronger, and once darkness fell the sky over the sea became a blaze of light, flashes of sheet lightning, like wild fire, as well as the occasional zig zag of forked lightning. Dramatic!   Scott took this photograph. Not easy to capture. Very clever.

  The storm briefly came over Aldinga Beach, and it rained heavily for a while, and then it was all over.    In the morning we woke up to a clean and fresh world.   A slight breeze, cool, a few heavy clouds on the horizon and sunshine.   The heatwave had already become past history.   Not quite forgotten, but nearly.

This evening we walked down to the beach, wearing jackets, due to the very cool breeze blowing from the east.    But how refreshing,  we felt full of energy as we walked quickly along the footpath.   What a difference.

We sat on the bench at the bottom of the cliffs to wait on the sun to set, and to capture the perfect photograph.   The seagulls lined up on the fence hoping that we were there to eat our fish and chips, and throw them some left overs.   Sorry to disappoint, guys.   However, I could not get the image out of my head of the birds waiting to attack in the film 'Birds'.   Not good.

  The sunset, but not a dramatic red tonight, due to the lower predicted temperatures tomorrow.   We can look forward to a pleasant day.  Thank goodness the seagulls flew off, disappointed, but peacefully.

But on a more serious note.   Fires are still raging in parts of south Australia.   But it could have been worse, as a cool change brings strong winds which whip up fires that have already started, and the forked lightning quickly starts new fires.    The people living in the Adelaide hills, and just down the road in Aldinga scrub, were feeling very nervous last night.

 But in Adelaide, we can all give a sigh of relief, for the time being, until the next heatwave comes along, which will happen.    For sure.    This is Australia.