1/21Brompton's Hawker Street Cafe manager Michael Tomljenovic serving iced coffee to his customers before shutting up amid the intense heat. Picture: AAP image/Emma Brasier
Images: How we took on a brutal day
January 24, 2019 will long be remembered as the day when much of South Australia, including Adelaide, sweltered under record heat. These images show resilient South Australians having the wits to take on a brutal day.
2/21Man hydrating himself in the city. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt/AAP
3/21Renato Lovisa of Italy and Natasha Romano of Newton find the best way to cool off in a tidal pool under a beach umbrella at Glenelg. Picture. ROY VANDERVEGT
4/21Jumping off the Glenelg Beach jetty. Picture: AAP Image/Kelly Barnes
5/21Sisters Emily and Lucy Bourke played happily in the cool water of Marion Outdoor Pool. Picture: AAP/Emma Brasier
6/21Karreek Holford and sister Lowenek with friend Eleanor Tiddy had matters licked. Picture: AAP/Emma Brasier
7/21Beachgoers cooling off at Glenelg Beach. Picture: AAP Image/Kelly Barnes
8/21Scott Black and Jordan Jackson sweating it out while setting up the stage for the Phil Collins concert in 46 degree heat. Picture: Elise Partington
9/21International tourists Julia Mertz (19 from Switzerland), Nicole Baldry (22, England), Amy Thompson (24, Scotland) and Brittany Lewis (21 from Wales) cool off under a fire truck hose at staying at William Creek. Picture: Tricia Watkinson.
10/21Zac Martin-Peddey from Semaphore takes a drink while showing ground paver temperature at over 63 degrees and the air temperature over 47 degrees at 1.30pm in Rundle Mall. Picture: Mark Brake
11/21Paver and ambient temparature at Rundle Mall. Picture: Mark Brake
12/21Mechanic Shaun Buckley cools down with the help of Steve Manuel at their workplace, Price Alexander Motors, Westbourne Park. Picture: Bianca De Marchi
13/21Chimpanzee Boyd tucks into an iceblock at Monarto zoo. Picture: ZoosSA
14/21Panda Wang Wang cools down during the heatwave at Adelaide Zoo. Picture: Adrian Mann
15/21The serpentine line at the Red Lion Hotel in Elizabeth North, which was offering free beer after the heat crossed 45C. Picture: @7NewsAdelaide
16/21Beating the heat in Mount Gambier were sisters Lani Platt and Aisha from Melbourne in Valley Lake. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
17/21Michael Beelitz kept his children Zara and Dustin cool in Coober Pedy. Picture: Tricia Watkinson
18/21Evan Phillips sits in a wheelbarrow full of bore water pushed by his sister Georgia Phillips as close friend Hugh Reichstein hosed them from a large mulberry tree at Coomunga, north of Port Lincoln. Picture: Rob Lang
19/21Isabella Fazzini and Bianca Gentilcore cooling down at Gawler Place with a temperature gauge showing 46C. Picture: Mark Brake
20/21Mrs B the Koala cooling down with the water spray at Cleland Wildlife Park. Picture: Shelley Rodda/Cleland Wildlife Park
21/21Peter Goers reproducing a photo of his Uncle Fritz frying an egg during a heatwave in 1939. Picture: Supplied
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