The Atlas Almanac
What is in season across Australia this month — produce, wildlife, landscape and the working year. Every window below is a recurring annual one, taken from the body that manages or measures it, and reviewed before it appeared here.
Fruit that bruises if you look at it, picked straight into the punnet it will sell in.
The long pick: bin after bin, variety after variety, running for months rather than weeks.
North to calve and south again with the calves alongside, close enough to the coast to watch from the headland.
Also in season in Gold Coast, Great Ocean Road, Margaret River and Port Macquarie & Hastings. No Atlas listing there answers this one yet.
The largest fish in the ocean, in to feed, and near enough to swim beside.
Tracks reopen, the air loses its weight, and everything that was cut off becomes reachable again.
In season in Alice Springs & Red Centre, Broome & Kimberley, Darwin & Top End and Katherine & Surrounds. No Atlas listing there answers this one yet.
Cellar doors run right through the crush — presses going, the yard full of bins, and the people who made it too busy to talk for long.
Seasons move. A window here is the ordinary year for a region, not a forecast, and a cold spring or a wet autumn will shift it by weeks. Check with the place before you drive. Place counts are the Atlas listings whose location resolves to that region.