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A thread for sharing some of those unique Australian experiences that we down here sometimes forget are so very, very strange.
There was a red sunset yesterday through the smoke from various bushfires about 50-100 Km away to the South, West and North-West. I wasn't able to get a photo, but this is what a bushfire does to the sun-
They say that smell is the best trigger for memories and associations. Today the whole region is covered in an ominous white haze and there is an ever-present smell of burnt eucalypt forest in the air. Its making me think of Christmas. I'm feeling the sudden urge to go out and buy decorations. Usually it is the deafening chorus of cicadas at dusk or that undefinable smell of summer that gets me feeling festive sometime in December, but the bushfires must be taking me back to the Christmas of 2001 when conditions were very similar to this.
There was a red sunset yesterday through the smoke from various bushfires about 50-100 Km away to the South, West and North-West. I wasn't able to get a photo, but this is what a bushfire does to the sun-
They say that smell is the best trigger for memories and associations. Today the whole region is covered in an ominous white haze and there is an ever-present smell of burnt eucalypt forest in the air. Its making me think of Christmas. I'm feeling the sudden urge to go out and buy decorations. Usually it is the deafening chorus of cicadas at dusk or that undefinable smell of summer that gets me feeling festive sometime in December, but the bushfires must be taking me back to the Christmas of 2001 when conditions were very similar to this.
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