2010 is set to be our wettest year for 30 years. Over the weekend we had over 150mm of rain which makes it our wettest October since we started keeping records. Although this has delayed our spring planting for a few days, it has given us many exciting (and sometimes amusing) sights.
Not only are our tanks and dams all overflowing profusely, but every depression in the ground is now full of water and creating little streams of runoff. As our son Greg commented, there seems to be water seeping out of every nook and cranny. Our wheelbarrow gets extensive use shifting all sorts of materials and this weekend we even had barrowfuls of water to shift (but nowhere needed water).
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| Our jetty nearly went underwater |
When we were first looking for a property to purchase, one of our dream criteria was a permanent stream or natural spring. Tenderbreak has finally given us our springs (temporary we think?? ). They are popping up everywhere, as water seepage follows channels below the ground till it eventually comes to the surface. These are feeding our gullies which have turned into small streams, our main gully has turned into a fast flowing creek, Pauls Creek has turned into a raging river (nearly washing out our access road and the Yarra River has turned into an inland sea down at Yarra Glen.
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| When the dam outlet pipe couldn't cope, the overflow went over the driveway |
Now we have a new range of adventure activities on our property.....white water rafting, surfing, canoeing, riding barrels over waterfalls or for the more fearful having “boat” races using leaves, sticks or bark.
All this beautiful water has given us an opportunity to flush water out of the dam. We opened the gate valve on the outlet pipe open for several hours allowing stagnant water sitting at the bottom of the dam to flush out. The fresh, nutrient filled rainwater then topped up the dam. The fish should find this very refreshing.
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| Releasing water out of the gatevalve |
Some more photos that give an idea of the sights that behold us.
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| Emergency road repairs! |
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| Rapids in Pauls Creek |
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| Horse "float" Parking |
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| Yarra Glen Race Track |
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| Surfs Up as water enters the Yarra River |
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| Pauls Creek is now a river |
1 comment:
It certainly has been one change of a spring.
I am actually still too cautious to put my hot weather stuff out, something makes me think we have at least one more real cold snap to go.
Kind Regards
Belinda
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