Fire Near Rich Ranch.

Fire on the Horizon

One thing all farmers are very afraid of is fire. It has a will of it’s own and once it gets out of control its very dangerous.

Last night as we went for a night hike with the school children we saw the glow of fire on the horizon. We are about 5km from the Olifants River. (The Olifants River flows north through Witbank Dam and then the Loskop Dam and is forced east by the Transvaal Drakensberg, cutting through at the Abel Erasmus Pass and then flowing east to join with the Letaba River, crossing into Mozambique after cutting through the Lebombo Mountains by way of the Olifants Gorge, joining the Limpopo River and the Rio Changane before entering the Indian Ocean at Xai-Xai north of Maputo.)

Olifants River

As long as the fire stays on the other side of the river we are still safe.

This fire can burn and smoulder for days on end so we will be on alert for the next few days.