Last Updated: February 27, 2023

As the sky turned brown burnt leaves floated down, the smell of smoke haze lingered right across town.

Saturday, 21st December was like no other; I took this photo of the coastline looking north towards Thirroul Beach. The image I describe as; monotone or sepia is an art process that you would typically apply to a photo through a process or filter. But this wasn’t an effect; it was real, the reality of thick bushfire smoke at its worst, blown up and across the coast from massive bushfires burning across NSW.

The photo below shows a burnt leaf, one of many blown in from bushfires hundreds of kilometres away.

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First published: 21st Dec 2019 – 1,919 hits.