This time last year we were recovering from floods in Wagga. Everything was green and lush. This year it's been our usual Summer... hot and dry. This is mostly what our landscape looks like in the surrounding areas. Yesterday some friends and our families drove to Narrandera (about an hour away) to use their pool …
This time last year we were recovering from floods in Wagga. Everything was green and lush. This year it’s been our usual Summer… hot and dry. This is mostly what our landscape looks like in the surrounding areas.
Yesterday some friends and our families drove to Narrandera (about an hour away) to use their pool complex with a water-slide. It was really hot and really windy. As we drove I couldn’t help but notice the landscape.
This is typical Australian countryside. A far cry from all the lovely beach images I keep seeing on everyone’s blogs!
This is how I spent my Summer as a kid. Battling through the heat, laying under the air-conditioner and only getting to play outside after I’d had my bath in the evening. The heat can be excruciating out here!
Nothing much has changed. I love it. While I do love visiting the beach, I still love all the smells, the sparseness and the openness of living in the country.
Australia Day is here this week and I’ll spend that day doing much of the same… heading to our ‘brown-dirty’ lake, bbq-ing and letting the blokes drink beer. Then we’ll come home and lay under the air-conditioner moaning about how hot it is and how sun-burnt we got (even though we didn’t mean to!)…
Today, I am still packing. We’re moving in a few days. It feels good to sort through everything. I’m just praying it’s not 38 degrees on moving day!
Have a great week. X
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Comments
Cathy
Good luck with the move – hope it’s not too hot a day!
Deb
Katrina your summers sound very much like ours. Hot and dry. Our closest lake has blue green algae so we have to go further afield for a lake swim for a little while.
Mandy
sorry, I keep posting those beach photos. But I’m loving it right now. I love that I can give the beach to my children, because I grew up in Benalla. I’m familiar with those landscapes, we spent our summers swimming through the river. But in all honesty they are great memories too.
Katrina
Hi Mandy! You’re forgiven.. hahaha 🙂
Pennyb
keep the photos coming. we lived in leeton for 10 years or so and i loved every minute of it.
i drove that rode almost every week to visit my mum and dad in wagga. i also drove that road whilst in labour for all 3 of my kids to Calvery Hospital.
Love the narrandera slides. it is as close as you get down that way to wet n wild……..(well kind of) haha
Pen x
Jay
Is the Oasis centre in Wagga not what it used to be? I remember spending many days there as a kid in Wagga’s scorching summertime.
Katrina
No slide anymore! It’s all been upgraded.