Top 5 posts for 2018 on Listening to the Past
The top five posts for 2018 are revealed. Read More …
Tag: shield shrimp
A changeable landscape: recollections of Woomera
Woomera is a dry place – most of the time. Sometimes however it is inundated with rain, and then the landscape changes dramatically. Plants that have laid dormant come to life, and seeds from ephemeral plants germinate and grow. I Read More …
‘Living fossils’ in the desert
Imagine living in Australia’s dry desert interior, and witnessing the landscape come alive after rain. I recently interviewed people who had lived in Woomera, 446 km north of Adelaide in an arid region surrounded by salt lakes that are usually Read More …