FEATURE
“MUM! We have to leave. NOW.” The weekend of the Bunyip bushfire in Victoria was one of the longest weekends of horse photographer and breeder NICOLE EMANUEL’S life.
W
e were waiting anxiously, fully aware that we were going to have to evacuate.
moving horses to a safe zone, thanks to the extremely generous assistance from dear friends as well as volunteers who dropped everything in their busy
Two nights before D Day, I was up
lives to come and help strangers. It’s an
until 2.00am packing negatives, slides,
unlooked for bonus, but a real one when
artworks, family treasures, hard drives
people you’ve never met simply offer all
and camera gear. I spent the next day
the support they can give you.
24
HORSEVIBES MAGAZINE - APRIL 2019
I had my float hooked up and ready to go the day before the fires were expected to peak, and from my back verandah I’d been anxiously watching the grey smoke billowing in the distance close to Bunyip. On the morning of Sunday March 3, my 12-year-old daughter Tilly loaded her
