The nation's largest sheep station is a picture of brown puddles and green shoots, after timely spring downpours along the arid Nullarbor Plain.
A few months ago, Rawlinna was looking down the barrel of another dry year.
But the property, which sprawls across more than one million hectares of outback Western Australia, welcomed more than 25 millimetres of rain at the end of October.
Station manager Jimmy Wood said he was overjoyed that things were "starting to green up".
"We did [also] get an inch [about 25 mm] of rain at the start of September, which was an absolute drought breaker for us," he said.
"With that rain in September, this will really get things going."
A much-needed soaking
About 400 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, along the Trans-Australian Railway, Rawlinna has in the past stocked more than 60,000 merino sheep.
Now, after years of dry weather, the vast station's flock size is about 35,000.
But Mr Wood was hopeful that the sheep population would bounce back.
"A lot of the stations along the trans-line, neighbouring us, they're in fairly poor condition as well because of the drought," he said.
"[They're] really struggling for feed, and I think this will probably turn it around for them.
"We've come off the back of four very, very dry years along the trans-line, and this is a game changer really."
Mr Wood said the rain would allow sheep to spend time grazing in parts of the country they don't normally get to.
His new-found optimism was shared by pastoralist Greg Campbell, who runs Nullarbor cattle operation Kybo Station.
"Hopefully, we keep getting summer rains and some good spin-off from the cyclones, and we should be back into it," he said.
"It's been very dry — not much protein in what feed we've had."
With shearing season three months away, Mr Wood likes what he sees out the window.
"I'm just overjoyed by the rain here and looking at a massive puddle over my lawn … nice brown, muddy water," he said.
"We've been hanging out for rain for a long time here."
