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| Brodie Road Wetlands, from the roadbridge |
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| Superb Fairywren at Onkaparinga Wetlands |
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| Roo family at Onkaparinga Wetalnds |
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| McLaren Vale area |
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| Australian native bee at the Ironbarks, Kuitpo |
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| Flinders Ranges |
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| Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens |
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| Gleeson Wetlands, Clare |
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| Nangawooka |
Something so
extraordinary happened that it's worth blogging about. This ...
Never ... Happens. I'm not exaggerating. In fact, I've been ransacking my memory for any other year in which the South Australian landscape was green as County Cork in January, ten days after the
summer solstice ... and I can't remember any other time. There was a year (1971 or '72, I can't quite recall) when it drizzled until shortly before Christmas, but by New Year the hills were baked brown and the catchments were half empty, as usual. This year? Well --
This
never happens. Except, apparently, in an El Nino year with some weird dipole values and a heck of a lot of monsoonal activity in the north and east. Put it all together, and you get a cool, sometimes misty, and rather wet summer for us, which translates directly into ... green. And I have to say, I like it. A lot. The climate could settle into this pattern and stay right there, if it were up to me...
