Mick recalls a flood that occurred in the 1980's when the estuary was low and twelve inches fell up in `Jerry'. "You could see the water rising in the river and estuary" and he and his wife Val said that they would go down to the mouth and watch it bream in the morning - but it broke at 8.00pm that night. Mick said "it was amazing for it to break that quickly and get that much water in it" and that this happened the same year that the Culum Inlet (Hopetoun) broke for the first time since the last century.

Athol and Jess have been recording the opening and closing of the Bremer and Hunter rivers since 1946 and said that the Bremer River "rarely broke out to sea before the war service settlement" and that now it opens up every couple of years. Alice said that "since 1984 they have lost the dunes around the mouth". John and Max recall that in the early days, fish would die because the water level would get so low. Alice recalls 1982 as a very dry year and that you "could walk from the jetty to the beach on sand". Mick, Alice, Athol and Jess, all commented that for the last two years the river has opened from the sea due to a combination of high tides and large swells.

In the history of the town of Bremer Bay there have been few fires but one major fire in the early fifties threatened the town of Bremer Bay. The fire came out of a swamp, according to Max, and burnt into Bremer Bay. "It went right around the top ridge (north side of town) and went along to the top of Bennett Street" recalls Alice. Some stock piles were lost and an elderly man died of a heart attack relating to the fire.

As he was in the fire brigade, Mick was on watch as a communications officer in 1982 and 1987 when there were large fires in the Fitzgerald National Park. Through this work, Mick has been involved in all of the fires in the Bremer Bay area and was the captain of the bushfire brigade from 1980 to 1994. He has recently assumed the responsibility of reporting to the Shire on weather conditions during the fire season.