Want to beat the heat? Head underground!

Updated January 11 2013 - 10:13pm, first published 9:29pm
Mist rises off Yarrangobilly’s thermal pool at dawn
Mist rises off Yarrangobilly’s thermal pool at dawn

You don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a bit on the warm side lately. In fact, the mercury has risen to such an extent, the shy possum that normally doesn’t emerge from his custom-made box on our back deck until well after nightfall has been hanging upside down in the fork of our climbing grapevine from noon every day this week. Incredibly, he hasn’t even responded with a guttural growl or scurried away in shock when Emily, my two-year old daughter, has repeatedly attempted to spray him with jettisons of water from her toy water guns. Most unpossum-like behaviour.

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