Well that was weird...

about a half past midnight tonight I'm off from night shift and I'd made the fatal mistake of drinking some coffee around 22:30 so wide awake. 

Decide to go for a run along the cycle track at Pukerua Bay. Do a 8km run, lovely night, I've got about a km and a bit to go before home. I'm near the footbridge along the track, (Puk end),  when I spot something glinting off ahead it's approx 01:30.

I run up to it and it's a small fire in the bush, (think miniature  moses and the burning bush), going quite well. No one around and you get the feeling I was the last to pass the spot 50 odd minutes ago and I've not seen anyone on the track.

Anyhow I've got my small headlamp so pull off a branch from a tree. Beat the fire to f*ck and remove the burning object, small blue bit of plastic. (sizish of a lighter but weirdly looks solid).

I stick the branch in the ground as a marker, run home, tell the wife, grab some water, cycle back just to make sure the thing was out, dosed the plastic and the burnt area of bush.

I'm thinking someone in a car was messing with a disposable lighter, it caught alight and in an a panic they threw it from the car into the bush, (hell of a throw), it then set fire in some old leaves and carried burning.

You really ARE the Fortean Times.

You should drink more coffee FT.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed I was in another earthquake.  Today our team broke a long losing streak and won!

#twilightzonemuch

Just about to go out and do the Sunday rituals etc.  There's a bloody big yellow thing in the sky and ithe air is exceedingly warm.

Might have to break out the slip, slap, slop.

Yeah but dreaming aside what to do you think happened??

Sounds like someone deliberately lit it, if you were on a walking track.  

Did they catch anyone after the big scrub fire up there last year?