It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

And today it will be 38 deg and 65% humidity and in part an explaination for today’s blip. If this shot had been taken weeks or even a month ago the view would be clear. As last evening dropped to 16 beg the humidity started to attach to the flora then by 8.00 this morning at 23 deg the moisture started to evaporate forming a light mist. Then by mid day this changes to heat haze combined with a little bushfire smoke. Today’s shot is from the common behind our town looking West at two coal mines. The one on the right is under construction and is called Mount Pleasant, the mine will commence production very soon. If you look to the left of the shot there is a hill which wasn’t there fifteen years ago. Bengalla mine is behind the hill which provides visual amenity for the town. Bengalla is producing just below 100 million tons of coal per year. A report out today by Australia’s reasearch body CSIRO shows that we have experienced Australia’s highest recorded temperatures in the last twenty years. What’s that song, The Times They are a Changing.
Extra photo, day 8 heading out of Norseman and reaching the 3763 kilometre mark with a crop ?. When Di took the photo, we had been traveling for fifteen minutes at 100 kilometres/ hour. It took a further five minutes before reaching the boundary fence. If you look between the wildflowers and the crop you can see the sand which everything is growing on.
Cheers Mal.