Dry

It's drier than we've ever experienced it up here and some of the plants are starting to really show the stress of low levels of soil moisture. This far north Queensland tree is normally covered in huge (and I mean huge) leaves but over the past few weeks it has been shedding them. Luckily its branches are covered in small baby leaves - and we have been watering it well - but it's a pretty stressed tree at the moment. Check out the male wallaby just to the left of the tree.

 The paddock in which Baxter and Dexter graze is very dry as well and we really need some good soaking rains (god I sound like a farmer) to kick start the growth of grass. We always give the boys lucerne hay over the winter when the grass slows right down but we've had to continue with the supplementary feeding right through spring. The boys are still looking pretty good but they should really be putting on the weight by now.

And our creek is at its lowest level since we bought the place. Looks beautiful of course but very low. Our own water supplies are fine - our drinking water tank is a good third full and we pump bore water into the other tank which is used to water gardens and for toilet water.