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More and More Rain

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January 23rd 2009
When we came to Mount Isa in December we knew this was a dry, hot place. We'd been here on a driving holiday the year before and knew this first hand. What we didn't expect was for the drought that the region has been suffering to break, and really break. This afternoon we had an amazing electrical storm with thunder as loud as mortar explosions. Our house was literally shaking. We d ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more