Marcus’ Blog

Well it will take a while till we can hike through the green hills and mountains in Discovery Bay.

A hillside fire started near the construction site near Siena Two in Discover Bay, went around the hills all the way up to the Reservoir and almost reached the golfclub.
It started Friday morning and was still blazing most of Saturday. It was finally put out by the late Saturday afternoon, but by then it had wiped out a large part of the hills around town.

Firemen were busy keeping the hills nearest to the flats wet, and helicopters went back and forth between the sea and the fires. The whole Saturday black pieces of burnt trees, leaves, twigs etc. flew around the place and landed everywhere.

It was quite stunning to see how helpless we really are against a fire raging over a hillside. There’s just no stopping it, and the wind surely did its best to help it.

What is of course said is that all this has most likely started with a human cause. Someone throwing a sigarette or something. Well, he or she certainly wasted part of our pleasure of living in ‘the Greens’!

Check out the pictures below.

Marc