Katie Tunks Leach, Smiles on the water and in the sky (PEOPLE WILDERNESS 2025)

The Canberra Balloon Festival brings out all the earlybirds! Paddlers make their way out onto the lake undercover of darkness, to watch the sun rise and the balloons fly. The mountains make a beautiful backdrop.

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