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February 18, 2007
It's hellishly hot in Adelaide--over 40 degrees with a hot north wind blowing. It's bush fire weather. We fled Adelaide and went down to the southeren coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula's on Friday night ---to Victor Harbor and the beach. But it is hot here this Sunday morning. The hot wind dropped late Saturday afternoon, and wee went for a swim.
I longed for a digital camera to take images of everybody cooling off in the sea as the seals dived and swarm around us. It was a lovely moment. I could have then come back to the weekender and posted the images immediately on junk for code. Without that technology I have to make do with an earlier atmospheric image without people from a print camera:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, West Is, Fleurieu Peninsula, 2005
The hot wind returned early this morning. Everything is hot. It is hard to concentrate. We are just sitting it out as best as we can, waiting for the wind to change. There will be no rain, despite the talk on the radio about rain. We long for the cool nights of autumn--and some rain.
I remembered this time last year when we were in Tasmania. It was still hot, the flies were everywhere but the forest was cool.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, trunk leaves light, Franklin-Gordon National Park, 2006
The Franklin River was flowing then and it looked wonderful. So pristine. Tasmania has so much water compared to South Australia. We have to start learning to live in the heat without much water.
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I am jealous, we got sleet that had to be chipped away with pick axes, and today we got more snow, so we have snow on ice, on sleet and now snow again.