What The rain Can Do!

I took this photo today as we headed off on our ride. You can see the line of rubbish along the side of this waterway. That shows how high the water level was during our recent heavy rain. Even our home has a steepish drive as do all homes in our street. I have been told this is to ensure that the homes stay dry during heavy rain as the road acts as a drain.

Most of the Sunshine Coast is reclaimed swamp so there needs to be many built in features to ensure houses remain dry during up to cyclones. We have lots of lakes and canals here, all good indicators of how the land used to be before development.

The waterway above is currently being realigned as house sites are being constructed and bridges etc built. Perhaps this made this water level worse than it could have been normally when all construction is finished.

If you have clicked on the photo above you will see Trish disappearing into the distance on her bike. To the left of the photo is where the next stage of the estate is going to be built and the this picture shows some of that preparation.

Russell and Irene are happily setup for a week in their caravan 15ks south of Emerald with a lakeside view. They think their next stops may be northwards to Charters Towers and then onto Townsville. They expect to be home to Drouin by the beginning of July. Russell is finding lots of Vietnam Vets 'on the road' and always has someone to have a chat to. There 'next door neighbours' at Lake Maraboon are originally from Warragul!

I have reset the "Visitors" count on the right of this page. The supplier of that little tool have changed some of their setup instructions so it had to be reset.

It had 603 visitors when I reset it. A good one third of those are probably me as I revisit the page after a post to fix up some spelling or formatting problems!