Guy Fawkes River National Park and Horses?!

From Jake Kotze's Instagram feed

Fires surround Guy Fawkes River National Park?!

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I noticed on the map above that fires surround the Guy Fawkes River National Park.

"Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in the United Kingdom."

November 5, 1975 in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton was allegedly taken by a UFO and the incident was made into a movie called 'Fire in the Sky'.

"The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous annual Thoroughbred horse race.

It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races.

The event starts at 3 pm on the first Tuesday of November and is known locally as "the race that stops the nation"."

This year Melbourne Cup Day fell on November 5th.

Starring Sam Neill

Starring Sam Neill

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Ironically the winning horse this year came from Queensland, the state where the racehorse slaughter scandal mainly took place and was revealed on national TV this year weeks before the running of the Cup.

"Wild horses have lived in Guy Fawkes River National Park since the 1930s.

In October 2000, over 600 horses in the Guy Fawkes River National Park were shot and killed from a helicopter during a controversial cull by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

In response to public outcry, the Minister for the Environment, Mr Bob Debus, commissioned a study into the heritage value of horses in the park and indicated that, should the horses be found to have genuine heritage significance, they would be humanely removed from the park so that they can be managed properly in another location by people with an interest in their heritage value.

In February 2002, the final report by the Heritage Working Party found that these horses had significant historical, military and cultural value.

They are direct descendants of Australia's wartime cavalry horses, known as Walers, and are the only group of Australian wild horse to have proven heritage value."

It's certainly been a November hard to forget down here, and it's not over yet.
ARMistice?

UPDATE: November 13th, 2019

If it wasn't for the ocean to the east, I'd probably be in a ring of fire right now.

I think this picture below sums up the situation in Australia quite well at the moment, and I can almost imagine a tear streaming from that kookaburra's eye.

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