Fortunate Plateaus

Monday, after lunch, I left Gatton and headed SW and approached the area known as the New England Tablelands, passing through the Ma Ma and Heifer Creek areas, through Warwick and around Stanthorpe, before crossing the border into New South Wales at Wallangara (and advancing an hour because NSW is on daylight savings time), and finally stopping for the night at Testerfield.

These plateaus, or tablelands as they call them, are privileged landscapes: they get more rain than most areas in the vicinity. I've even noticed this phenomenon looking at the FNMOC computer weather forecasts for Australia back in Sacramento. Storms linger here when they disappear elsewhere.