THE FLOOD CONDITION

Australians we feel a strong symbolic bond with the bush, this is a country where you have to stand tall through a flood, crippling drought and bushfires. In the summer of 2008-9, we experienced the worst bushfire in the recorded history of southern Australia and still no relief from the drought.

In the summer of 2010, the big wet started up north with a series of highly damaging cyclones, which carried far inland a series of enormous rain depressions. That flooded the parched channel country of northwestern Queensland and out into the dry interior, forming lakes and ponds which may last for a few weeks to months at a time. Life springs up in these ponds, from dormant eggs in the previously dry soils, fish and different shrimp species which live only for a short time during these events.  

So the life-giving water travel led thousands of kilometers through creeks and river beds, sometimes dry for years, until it reached a vast inland sea called Lake Eyre. This you can expect to see this happen once in your lifetime, so far it has happened three years in a row, we have gone from continuous drought to widespread floods.

In Victoria, we have been having once in 100-year events not once but 3 times in 2 years. This is causing a massive loss of crops and in some case of stock though drowning or starving. The bush is now growing and flowering in abundance, the-the pastures are meters high were 2 months ago were just dry dust bowls.

This is not a story of destruction or loss of hope, but one of hope, rebirth and the indomitable Australian bush spirit, the bush is bouncing back, and we know everything will be as it should be