Picture this - you wake in the morning to sunrise around 6.30am, the weather is mildly cool or 'fresh', you look outside to endless blue sky's, with just a sprinkling of clouds across the horizon. Coming from Brisbane, to begin with you sometimes wonder if with the clouds there might be a spot of rain, however after a couple of weeks you start to realise there is a reason it is called the dry season, dah - no rain!! The days warm up and by lunch time the tempreture ranges from the late twenties to early thirties. There is no humidity - or very little. At 3pm when we head home it is the hottest part of the day, thankfully it is only a quick walk across the street to home. It finally starts to cool down at 5/5.30, this is when we take Cooper and Bronx out for a run. The sun doesn't start to set until about 6.45, so there is more then enough time to enjoy the cool of the evening.
Watching the evening news we feel sorry for the poor Brisbanites experiencing more rain and another cold snap - unlucky!!
The landscape is very dusty and brown - but not dead, it only takes a sprinkling of water for the lawn to come back to life. The locals also do a lot of burning off to prepare for the wet season and if the council doesnt' get to a patch in time, one of the helpful local kids will happily take a match and do it for them! Thankfully that hasn't happened this year.
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| Burning off at the end of our street |
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| A burnt section of land on the way to Shelfo |
In the last couple of weeks it has started to warm up and the humidity is starting to kick in. The storms should start rolling in around October, so our beautiful weather will soon be replaced with daily storms and close to 100% humidity.
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