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three teenage boys doing somersaults into muddy brown water in Australia
August 20, 2020

Summer Somersaults

On a hot summer day, boys jump into the Mulwala Canal near Deniliquin, Australia. The irrigation canal transports water more than 100 miles into the heart of New South Wales farm country.
Photograph by Amy Toensing, Nat Geo Image Collection

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