Look how lush & green the vegetation is. That suggests to me that there hasn't been too much dust around for a while.

I have just finished reading the Biography on Sir Roden Cutler. When he was in NZ, his NZ counterpart had declared that they were in the middle of a terrible drought. It hadn't rained for........6 weeks.
At the time, Australia had been in drought for 9 years. Some people don't know when they're well off,... lucky bastards.

ive heard nz has some very good rally tracks!!!
looks pretty good from what i can see in the view behind the car. makes the tracks look asif they are nice moist and shady.