To the Editor: My first reaction to reading "On dry land" (in In this Issue, in the 5 April issue of the Journal1) was to ask myself, "hang on, isn't the Australian Medical Association (AMA) based in Canberra now, and surely Canberra wouldn't be crowing about the superiority of its winters over Melbourne's?". Then, of course, a quick look at the first page of that issue revealed that the Journal is published in . . . surprise, surprise ... Sydney!