AUTUMN GOLD

Australia’s south-east has just enjoyed one of its mildest, wettest summers in recent memory – and you won’t hear me complaining.

I loathe long, hot summers, where the countryside bakes and waterways evaporate. Mercifully, the summer just gone was the complete opposite.

Forty-degree days, water restrictions and bushfire warnings were replaced by comfortable temperatures and regular rainfall as a dominant La Nina weather pattern took hold.

“Forty-degree days, water restrictions and bushfire warnings were replaced by comfortable temperatures and regular rainfall as a dominant La Nina weather pattern took hold.”

I wasn’t the only one who revelled in the conditions. With so much water around, trout fishers across NSW had one of their best summers ever.

Many said it was like fishing through an “extended