© irene waters 2014
These photos are obviously old and as photographs, are of poor quality and worthless. They were taken on one of the first cameras I owned – a Kodak instamatic. As far as showing the theme – dry, I think they fit the bill beautifully.
Travelling in the centre of Australia in the early seventies (I doubt it is much different now) made a person very aware of water or rather the lack of it. You have to wonder how the cattle survive and start to understand that the farms are in square miles with few head of cattle per acre.
There is something mesmerising about the desert. On another trip we travelled to Broken Hill to visit a friend who was working there and whilst he was at work we explored the surrounding desert. We both felt a strong pull and said “if we don’t leave soon we never will.”
On the trip that the photos above are taken we came across water tanks on high stands on the side of the road that were filled from bores sunk deep into the ground. Here we saw people swimming in the tank as well as drinking water and using it for their cars radiators.
One thing is for sure you wouldn’t want to run out of water in this dry landscape.
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/01/31/travel-theme-dry/
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Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Most interesting that you were sufficiently impressed by The Big Dry as to take all those photo, Irene! – and they do say it’s rapidly becoming like that, once again. My mother used to say, without a hint of racism, “This country is for blackfellas!” – and she was right. My mother nearly always was. Sighh …
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Mother’s always are [spoken with resignation and more than a hint of eyeronnie.] RRLOL
To tell you the truth I don’t know whether they were in drought or normal at the time. I think I was too young and stupid to care less either way, I was too busy trying to be alluring.
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And were you?
Don’t answer that.
😉
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Are you getting to the last month of your dry season? I’ve seen photos of the brush fire you can have there.
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Most of Australia should be in its wet season now and much has not had rain (including where I live). Other places have just had their first real rain and so perhaps we are about to get some rain. The fires are dreadful (none near me thank fully) and are made worse by the dry conditions, the extreme heat that many have been experiencing and the strong winds we have also had. Hopefully that risk has now decreased. The whole world seems to be having extremes of weather now – I guess thats climate change starting to show it portent.
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