Flooding rains ...

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After 15 dry years, we're finally having a really wet year.  As I drove along Couangalt Rd last night I knew something was up. 

Here is the sight that greeted me when I got home.  Fortunately this is an example of a well designed spillway working properly.  I suspect the quantity of water was partly a function of a dam in the property above us failing.  I will have to check this morning.

Earlier in the Spring I had two nephews from New Zealand staying.  After a couple of months they went home - missing white water kayaking too much (although I suspect someone called Sophie may have had something to do with it).  Little did I know we could have offered them Grade 2 rapids in our own ephemeral creek if only they had waited.

 Perhaps not Grade 2, but there is quite a lot of water going down here.  I would guess it's at least 4 feet deep.

I would think we are now approaching the point where the soil profile must be getting pretty saturated.  When we arrived at Moora, post holes got drier the further down I got.  We had damp soil over a bone dry subsoil.  In places the sub soil just shattered into what looked like talcum powder.  Now you can't dig a post hole without it filling with water.