Photo above: From Towers St, Arncliffe at 6am this morning.
Photo One below: 3:40 pm 8 June 2009
Photo two below: 7:10am 25 June 2009
This morning there are gale force winds and Sydney is enveloped in the most incredible red dust blanket. When I heard about it I jumped in the car and went out to photograph the view from the same vantage point as the pics below which I blogged recently. This was AFTER sunrise. The dust is blowing across the continent from the centre to the east.
It is like a glowing red fog, but I can feel dust in every breath.
Ferries have been suspended, road tunnels are closed, flights are delayed from the airport. Our bathroom has a skylight - the bath tub has a layer of red dust lining it.
The tragedy is, this is Australia's topsoil - a very limited resource as it is, with our ancient, thin soils.
These are great images. Awesome! Every single one of them. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSydney's saddened Sally snapped sandy soil storm shots!
ReplyDeleteSnap! Great shots, Sally. Mine were taken two hours later.
ReplyDeleteThat top picture could pass, easily, for a Japanese scroll painting from the Meigi period.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots Sally. I took a couple from a bit later in the morning on the way to work but they're not as orange as your shot.
ReplyDeleteSydney - City and Suburbs
The ones on the SMH are good, too. But I like your three from the same vantage point.
ReplyDeletePity the poor farmers, eh?
Oi, that is bad news! But it makes for great photos.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with breathing and with the clean up.
Good shots, I was really looking for these pictures, but didn't get a good one.Thank you .
ReplyDeleteSydney Things To Do
Wow... good opportunities for photos but not a good news...
ReplyDeleteMy God, Sally how absolutely awful. I just saw a photo on a news website and immediately came to check in here. Your photo is fabulous. Just wish it hadn't happened. Hope it blows away soon. Can't be good for folk with respiratory problems.
ReplyDeleteGosh, red dust... I don't know what to say. I hope it will not destroy the nature.
ReplyDeleteGail and I witnessed a sandstorm when we were Dubai recently. But nothing on the scale of this. What will the country look like when it passes?
ReplyDeleteThat is quite the shot! We get storms like that in SLC when the winds kick up over the west deserts! WOW.
ReplyDelete