Fiery sheets of rain fall in the western horizon but none of it reaches the water below while the ocean is calm even as storm clouds loom overhead. I loved the incongruity of this scene tonight as people played and swam in the warm shallows while small boats lingered out at sea. What a beautiful […]
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Drawing Back the Curtains
Framed by curtains of rain, bathed in sunset gold, the sun peeks below the dark clouds of the receding winter. Not since I was a child do I remember rain like this season has brought. As if the curtains of winter were finally drawn back, this weekend was the first in weeks the rain has […]
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That ‘pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’ might just be more than a myth in this freshly watered desert landscape. The rain now over, snippets of blue appearing in the north and then a beautiful rainbow as the weather’s parting gesture. It would all be dry again soon so we took note […]
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“I’ve been coming up here most weekends for the last 8 years”, he said, “and I’ve never ever seen any water in these creeks!”. What are the chances, we all thought? The one weekend we chose to camp out here in the rugged outback east of the Flinders Ranges is the one where 8 years […]
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