Friday Afternoon Update

The weather continues cooler and showery. Though the showers are small in number they can be quite intense dropping a quick 4 or 5 mls in a few minutes. Over the last couple of days the total rainfall is heading to 20 mls and even the EL Riordan Memorial Drain is working.

This carries overflow water from the back garden out to the front street. It has an illustrious history which I won't go into here!

Melbourne friends John and Sue Logan stayed overnight Thursday. They drove in early Thursday afternoon and we all enjoyed a few drinks as we watched the Australia Vs England Test match from Sydney on TV. As usual, we hit the RSL for an evening meal and so Sue could feed her addiction to the Poker Machines.

A quick but cool swim Friday morning before we watched the end of the cricket on TV and then they departed for John's mother's place about 20 minutes from here.

In 2006 we had 1318 mls of rain which is about 88% of the usual total rainfall for Caloundra (1574 mls). Our wettest day in 2006 was January 8th when we had 110 mls.

This is a 'panorama' photo I took when at the MCG while in Melbourne recently. It is actually 4 photos combined into one panorama shot. Click on the photo for a larger view.