Central Australia waterhole or billabong

Absolument magnifique cette vue,complètement ZEN.
Bon Dimanche.

Great composition and perspective, hard to imagine no rain for 3 years! (three days would be good)

It never ceases to amaze me how there "grows" the best, the worst and the stunning things of Nature in such a wonderful and real place….
It seems there was a hidden law to make it all in the same place.
Wish you a great new week, we are still using the last Sunday gift of sun and peace.
Cheers Diana.

Effrayant de penser qu'il pleut aussi peu ... et pourtant il y a de la vie

ursprüngliche Natur

Unusual landscape for us Europeans!!!!!!*****

un endroit idéal pour passer une retraite tranquille...peut-être un peu loin de la ville pour aller me ravitailler en whiskey !

On porte soi-même le whisky ou le vin...le bar le plus proche est à 200 km

An unforgiving landscape...........it's amazing that anything can survive! Strangely beautiful though!

Outstanding shot!

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Superb capture of this beautiful but very dry area D,
people live here ?

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Yes. It is one of the hundreds of similar million or so acre cattle stations which fill our vast desert inland...they run one cow to about 10 acres. It is very remote.

Merci pour la découverte en image Diana

Beautiful landscape image Diana.

Outstanding scenic image. Well done Diana Regards Tess

A stunning landscape and shot, Diana!
Are such periods of drought normal there?

In the central part of Australia, it is desert, and prolonged droughts are part of life. The rainfall is always low, even when it does rain. Australia is the driest country. Only the coastal belt of the country has rain on a regular pattern.
There is a very, very deep ancient source of water, the Great Artesian Basin underlying about 55% of the continent. This water is millions of years old. It has slowly filtered its way over eons from the surface, through the rock layers to deep under the surface. These dry lands are home to giant cattle farms...up to a million hectares. The will have one animal for each 5 or 10 hectares. The farmers drill deep into the earth to pump up water for animals to drink, but there is no irrigation of this land.
It is a very harsh place...often around 50C in summer for long periods of time!

That seems extreme. It is astonishing that farmers' animals can cope with such conditions.
Thanks for the detailed information, Diana.

Wild country indeed Diana. Too hot even for crocs here :) Lovely captured light and colour from you. Well done. ~ Herb

Wspaniały obraz :)

Beautiful image.

Outstanding landscape capture! So beautiful and unique!
Life must be hard with no rain for such a long time....
Thanks for sharing this beautiful image, Diana:) Big hugs.

It"s a great photo, but in spite of this inviting place, it must be hard to be a cattle there, so hot, so dry, so harsh....

★彡 Good work. Have a lovely new week 彡★

a beautiful landscape but not a place to live......

beau paysage et merci pour les explications

The photo is fascinating! I wonder how long the water in the Artesian basin will last or for how long people and cattle will be able to withstand the rising temperatures....

I wonder that also, Gudrun