After a few days off because of the weather, it was good to get out on the bike again. We had 42 mm of rain in 24 hours, equivalent to our average rainfall for the entire month. There is a lot of water on the roads, so I didn’t go as far as I intended.

The photo is a wattle tree, a generic term for a range of Australian acacia trees and bushes that all look very unremarkable until spring when they become covered in bright yellow flowers.