Yep, it spotted across Wilson Drive once, but has spread out mainly South, almost at Cataract dam. O map is the red cross (I think), the outlined area is extent of fire.
Meanwhile, it sounds like just about every bit of bush between the Hunter River and Port Stephens is, or has been, on fire except for the Stockton Dunes map.
Every time we see smoke up that way (Stockton dunes) we hope it is the dunes map area (well if something is burning it may as well be there). Never is though.
I had to go into the local school today to help with something and one of the staff came in late. She had got back to Sydney at 4am, having been out on that Lithgow-Mudgee road collecting her dad's valuables and bringing them back through three fires to Sydney.
So it sounds as though the people there are worried, even if we aren't.
When I was course setting at Hilltop I noted some of the homes on the road into the map with trees all around and thought that I would not want to live in those places in a hot summer. There will be some very nervous home owners in that area.
In the end the Minmi fire didn't get across the freeway - which is as well because Minmi and the west side of Wallsend would have been in big trouble if it had.