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...north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
...dozen motorcycles parked by the side of the road, but it's not menace that has ridden into Bulahdelah, 100 km north of Newcastle. These bikers have no interest in the liquids on offer in the bright-yellow Plough Inn. Rather, they sip tea and coffee in a sun-drenched park behind the library. And the color of some of the men's hair: that isn't blond or platinum, it's gray. None of these blokes is younger than 45; a couple are over...
...Further north, the magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more, they do get more sun; but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they break that teaches them something they wouldn't learn any other...
...grouped together into three or four houses where they are looked after. There is no electricity in the village, but a small generator provides enough power to pump water from a well. The water is sterilized by filling plastic bottles and then keeping it out in the scalding sun for a few days. There is no food coming into the village. Indeed other than a small group of Western reporters, including TIME, the only other visitors able to reach this stricken village were a team from the International Committee for the Red Cross. Still, the abandoned stores in the village...