Black+Friday

BLACK FRIDAY From Geelong on the princess highway, all the way to the Great Ocean Road, it was blanketed with yellowy grey smoke from the fires. It was nearly impossible to see. For safety people put their cars on the shallows of the beach water so they wouldn’t blow up near the threatened towns. The area known as Little Colac, on the Geelong side of Lorne suffered a lot with up to sixteen houses destroyed. At Barongarook, fourteen kilometers from Colac, four children from one family were burnt to death.

Marcus Overman and Maddy Gecsek 2011