Australian Wet Season

For over 65,000 years, Indigenous Australians have lived in sync with the Wet. The calendar is not defined by dates, but by environmental cues. The flowering of the Woollybutt tree signals the start of the burning season (Dry); the knocking down of the Windil (water lilies) signals the Wet is imminent.

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The contrast between the dry season and the wet season could not be more stark. For six months, the Top End is a parched, brown, and dusty savanna. Within weeks of the first monsoon burst, it becomes a lush, green, waterlogged wilderness. For over 65,000 years, Indigenous Australians have lived