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Dry Season
10:44 AM, Tuesday, 9 May, 2006
Apparently Port Moresby is a very dry city. It has been described to me several times as a 'dust bowl' with the dry season lasting most of the year, April-November. During this time one never sees a drop of rain.
Except, apparently, for this dry season. Ever since I arrived, four weeks ago, there has been a TORRENTIAL downpour at least once a week. Last night was a prime example, with thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening me) and wind and rain just pelting down. It makes me very glad that Port Moresby doesn't get cyclones.
So, it's still a really beautiful city at the moment. The frangipanis and bougainvilleas are flowering like crazy, and we have some beautiful gardenias in our front garden that smell amazing the morning after rain. We also have a giant mango tree which is covered in mangoes, but they are too high to reach - it looks pretty nonetheless.
When this unseasonably wet weather stops, we look forward to all of the hills around Port Moresby being burned to a crisp and taking on the appearance of sand dunes. At this point apparently it's fashion suicide to wear white, because the dust is everywhere and things get a brown tinge to them. Dry tropics. So I'm making the most of the wet, and taking lots of photos which will be posted here as soon as they wire up my office!
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I can't wait to see photos.
So when are you going to employ your elite tree-climbing skills to try to pick a few mangoes?
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| May 10, 2006 8:26 PM