Monday 12 March, 2007
Drought
I went to the Port Fairy Folk Festival on the weekend. This is some of the country we drove through (between the Hamilton and Princes Hwy). This picture does not capture how absolutely surreal the landscape felt, or the fact that the air was choked with dust. The top soil had pretty well all blown away.
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Views from the Floor
kate says:
I didn't go for the Festival, we were at Port Fairy the week before though. It was so nice to get past all the drought-stricken cracked earth and stage 4 restrictions, to the green green greenness of Warnambool and Port Fairy. We celebrated with a bath. And it rained.
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