Wet & Wild

It's the wet season in Townsville, so rain and floods are hardly news. But this year's wet season had a late start, so I was very happy to see it finally arrive--even if it does mean water filling up our little back yard.

Last week we got 500 millimetres of rain in 5 days, so on Sunday when the rain stopped Andy and I went out for a sticky-beak to the river.

Aplin's Weir--most of the year there is no water running over this.

The tidal part of the river, at a King Tide.

Mt Stuart, behind Annandale and some benign clouds.

The path was strewn with sticks and branches, and in this case, half a tree.

As the saying goes, it's been lovely weather for ducks. Or in our case, lovely weather for random fungus to start growing in amongst our spinach and basil.