A THIRSTY LAND......AUSTRALIA

Waiting for the Tide

At Ballarat Yacht Club, on Victoria's Lake Wendouree, a boat sits on baked mud, still lashed to the jetty. ccc
Out of Water
The shrinkage of the Hume Weir dam, near Bethanga, in the state of Victoria, left thousands of fish high and dry.c

Salt of the Earth

Near Nyah West, Victoria, large swathes of farmland have been abandoned because of salinity.

Blowing Away

Swollen by the drought, a dust storm approaches the town of Nevertire, in central New South Wales.c

Desperate Horde

Drawn by artesian water, kangaroos infest Oxley Station, a cattle property in western New South Wales. cc

Fading Hope

At this farm at Wycheproof, in northern Victoria, the drought seemed to break last year, but the wheat crop failed for want of follow-up rain c

Small Respite

A girl wades in Victoria's Laanecoorie Reservoir after brief showers covered the hard-baked mud with water. cc

Slow Death

A sheep is trapped in drying mud near Ballarat, Victoria.

Bare Horizon

At drought-stricken Ulonga Station, in New South Wales, the few surviving sheep had to be hand fed.

Lethal Error

Only one paddock on this farm at Coonamble, New South Wales, had a water trough. When its gate was accidentally left shut, a flock of sheep perished.

No More River

Mark Hinman and his son Thomas crouch in the bone-dry Combo waterhole, on Queensland's Diamantina River.