It is 71F, clear skies. Wind gusts up to 21 but at least it's not a cold wind for a change. Got the 3-week old ones out yesterday, and today they were all waiting to be taken out there again.
We're out of temp coop space for them so hubby's building them one as we speak.
Monday 15th April 8.35a.m. Clear blue sky here! 3.7 / 5.5kph SSW, Hg 60%, 18.6C / 65.5F headed for 24C / 75F. Mostly sunny.
Moon is 41.5%
Huge wet season sees pastures and cattle thrive in Barkly after devastating bushfires last year
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Pastoralists around Tennant Creek are delighted to see "beautiful" green regrowth, flooded plains and fat cattle after high rainfalls since the start of the year.
Huge bushfires ravaged the Barkly region for months last year, with more than 2.8 million hectares burnt, devastating and exhausting many pastoralists who lost cattle, pasture, infrastructure and time fighting the blazes.
But now, instead of a red glow cast by massive walls of fire and sweaty, soot-darkened brows, many people are excited by an abundance of bright green grass shooting up from the previously blackened land.
'Green as the fields of Ireland'
At Kurundi cattle station, about 100 kilometres south-east of Tennant Creek, fire affected about 800 square kilometres of land, but manager Ben Saint said a record 980 millimetres of rain had fallen since January.
"Everything's as wet as we've seen it for a long time. There's springs in the middle of roads. There's water coming out of nooks and crannies in the hills," Mr Saint said.
"It's as green as the fields of Ireland.
"The grass is half a metre high already and it's green, it's beautiful."
Mr Saint anticipated rivers and waterholes on the property would be full for several years after the steady rain.
"We were pretty exhausted at the end of the fire season ... but now to see the country respond to what it is, is pretty damn incredible," he said.