No Rain To Report

Life has moved into "recovery Mode" following Rainy's return to Melbourne. Our meals have dropped in size and certainly the number of wines Trish has enjoyed recently has dropped as well. A few heavy showers on Tuesday night still left over an inch in the rain gauge. There was half a ml there today (2 points), not worth recording!

So far in April we have had almost 13 inches of rain.

It has been a PC couple of days for me. Another member of the Computer Club had a problem with his computer so I went around to do an XP System Repair Install for him on Monday. However the computer's behaviour was very strange and not at all how I had expected it to be. We decided to go down the Warranty road to have it repaired. He had bought it at a shop called IT Warehouse in December 2008. That chain of stores no longer exist in Queensland so all repair work has to be done interstate.

I went back to his place again today and this time we were given a couple of diagnostic programs to run on his sick PC. As it turns out the Hard Drive is not responding. This could be a power problem, a lead problem or his hard drive has died. Looks like it is going down to Melbourne for repair!

Then yesterday while Trish was on "Tourist Information Service" another mate came around to investigate downloading and showing movies from over the internet. It was a bit of fun!I reckon I should be selling these. About 8 people from the Computer Club have bought them, mainly for showing movies downloaded from the internet.

Temps the last day or so have been cool for us. Yesterday was a grey, cloudy, 24 degrees. Later in the afternoon I reached for my Bazza Shirt, the first sign that winter is on its way. With today being dry, I managed a 10k bike ride this morning. There was a nip in the air and about 18 degrees.

Hopefully I will catch up with another mate tomorrow morning and we will do the 10k ride together if weather permits.

More Rain & Then It Disappears

I happened to take a quick look at the rain gauge about 3;30 am on Saturday morning and saw that we had 8mls during the night to that time.

Then the downpour started again with heavy showers until dawn. During a break in the showers just before 8 am I was able to tip 60 mls from the rain gauge. Then it started again and in the next 50 minutes a further 43 mls fell. We had had over 4 inches of rain in about 5 hours.

As I type we have had about 290mls (or just under 12 inches of rain) since Thursday. This continuous heavy rain has completely flooded our street Saturday morning. This photo looks towards the end of our court and shows the walkway through to the main road. There is a 'valley' just through there about 1 metre deep so the water in that area is over a metre (4'). The rain stopped about 9 am with a further 43mls in the gauge. Again the pool did not overflow. There is a small overflow outlet but with 12 inches of rain, I have lost 12 inches of salt water through the overflow. The pool did need a bag of salt yesterday.


When I returned from my Computer Club Meeting there was no sign of any flooding at all! The day developed into a beautiful sunny day, so much so our guest Rainy had a swim in the pool late yesterday.


We have more heavy rain forecast for later today and it may continue to be showery until Thursday!

Rainy flies back to Melbourne today after spending a week with us. The weather hasn't been kind for her visit here but the ladies did have a great time together.

Daylight Saving finished overnight in the other east coast states so our times are all back to normal again.

I keep a copy of my rainfall figures online HERE The sheet is divided into 4 quarters so you may have to click on Q2 (bottom left hand corner of the screen) to get April's records.

All Safe And Well - But It Is Wet!

Since the rain started about 5 am yesterday I have tipped 183mls out of the rain gauge. In old speak that is about 7 1/2 inches of rain. We had that over 26 hours or so. At no stage did our pool look like overflowing.

For the first time in our memory there was water covering our street from the end of the court to back beyond our home.

Most of the heaviest falls were north of Noosa away from the beach. Those areas had over 450mls (or about 18 inches) and are about 80 kilomtres (50 miles) from our home. The heaviest rain usually falls inland from Noosa so these heavy falls tend to be well away from where we live. It is wet here in Caloundra but all this means is the garden doesn't need watering for a few days.

Though we have grey skies right now (7:30 am) it is relatively dry outside. The photos are from the local paper web site and were taken around Maroochydore yesterday about 20k's north of us.

More rain tending to showers is predicted for today

Noosa Fun

Trish and Rainy had a long and tiring day yesterday visiting Eumundi and the market and then heading on to Noosa. The surf Club at Noosa has just been renovated and the balcony area is a great spot to sit, enjoy the view and have a cool drink. The girls mentioned there were a few 'white pointers' on the beach (Lou Ann, this is Australian for "topless sunbathers".) Noosa was quite busy despite it not being a holiday time of year. The recent storms here on the Sunshine Coast have washed nearly all the sand from the beach at Noosa as you can see in the shot below. Extensive sand pumping is going on to get the beach ready for the Easter break. Noosa is famous for its beautiful protected surf beach. Usually all these rocks are covered with sand.


From Noosa they made their way down to Coolum which is probably the best surf beach on the Sunshine Coast. As you can see from this shot the surf is really pumping right now.

We went to a local Thai Restaurant for dinner last night and had a very pleasant meal.

About 5 am today the skies opened up and the rain we had been promised started to fall. And rain it sure did. As I type this at 11 am we have had almost 3 inches of rain and it doesn't look like stopping for some time. I just took this 'screen pic' from the webcam which is situated at Bulcock's Beach. Today isn't good beach weather!

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Around Town

Tuesday was spent 'around town' with our visitor. A morning walk along the "Boardwalk" (see left) brought us to the sea water pool at the top end of Kings beach. There has been quite a swell rolling in from the Pacific Ocean and the surf is really pounding. Even though we are 4 kilometres from the water you can clearly hear the surf. This shot below was taken looking back down along King's Beach. The waves have left a small 1 metre cliff in the sand so rough have the seas been.


From there it was to "Dicky Beach" named after the SS Dicky which was beached during a cyclone many years ago. Usually you can't see this much of the ship's remains but again the strong swell has washed much of the sand away leaving more of wreck exposed. Rainy and I walked along the beach before returning to catch up with Trish at the Dicky Beach Surf Club for a cool refreshing drink.

It was such a beautiful warm day it was decided to spend the rest of the day either in or beside the pool. As we were going to the RSL for tea I was the designated driver and had little to drink to ensure I was fine to drive. We enjoyed the afternoon with nibbles and drinks.

The meal at the RSL was very acceptable. There was live music too and Trish enjoyed a successful flutter on the poker machines. She also did very well on the chocolate machine winning a bag full of chocolates.

It was a great day enjoyed by all. We headed for bed about 11pm.

This morning Trish and Rainy headed off 60k's north of here to the Eumundi Market and then to have a good look around Noosa. The market is not my scene so I stayed home. However I have been known to enjoy the pub over the road from the market ... but not today!