Very sad to report to all our Friends of Onoke Spit that a fire on Friday evening April 3 has quite extensively damaged our newly planted areas. The fire seems to have started from someone lighting a camp fire and the wind blowing the fire into our newly planted plots. Being so dry the fire spread very quickly and just shows how careful we must be when lighting fires outdoors when things are this dry.
We won’t know the full extent of the damage for a while as we are hoping that with some rain the plants just may revive. So let’s all pray for rain soon!
The pictures below give you a fairly good idea of what has happened.

Site of original campfire which started the whole thing

Fire damage in planted area

Fire crews still dampening down next morning

Looking back from Beach Road next morning