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Letter from Istari Ian Bentley Letter from Istari Ian Bentley

The dry continues - fires, orchids and cockatoos

It rained - a little. Enough to wet the dust.

Just nine millimetres for the month of September. August was just fourteen millimetres. At least it rained, I suppose. Two years ago it didn't rain for three months straight. Maybe that is when the dry really started here. Of course it had been dry over the range for a while by then, years in some places.

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