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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.
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