Bush fires on the Australian continent are yearly events that occur during the hot and dry austral summer season. While these fires cause loss of property and human lives, certain native flora in Australia have evolved to rely on bushfires as a means of reproduction and are an interwoven and essential part of the continent’s ecology. The yellowish smoke plume extending hundreds of kilometres from Victoria State towards the Tasman sea that shows up in the lower part of this image was caused by a large amount of fires that have been burning since the previous day.