This pic was taken about 3.00pm Saturday and shows the creek at its peak yesterday. The creek actually rose another 5 metres above this on Thursday and you can get a sense of the force of the surge by the flattened grasses (metre high usually) and the tobacco bushes. All of the casuraina trees you can see are usually on land. Compare this pic with the shot 3 pics below that was taken about 9am yesterday morning.
We've had more rain over the past 24 hrs and the bridge went under again today, so we are now flooded in, rather than out, which is a much nicer feeling. The bridge should be in the middle of this pic. You can see a car on the left hand side which has had to stop because it's unable to cross.
If you go back to the earlier posts on the creek revegetation you'll see some pics taken from similar spots. That will show you just how much land is underwater at the moment. The flood has caused me to rethink the creek revegetation strategy. I might not be able to do too many plantings in the flood zone unfortunately, not only does the prolonged submersion affect the plants but the force of the surge down the creek pushes over what is growing as you can see with the 2 metre high wild tobacco bushes that had looked a picture last week and I was going to use them as a canopy to underplant rainforest species. Back to the drawing board.
This was taken earlier this morning. The creek had risen well above the two casuarina trees by 3.00pm
You can get a sense of the force of the creek as it surged across tis grass, bending over a 2metre fig tree we planted a couple of weeks ago and leaving muddy sand behind.
This pic was taken about 3.00pm Saturday and shows the creek at its peak yesterday. The creek actually rose another 5 metres above this on Thursday and you can get a sense of the force of the surge by the flattened grasses (metre high usually) and the tobacco bushes. All of the casuraina trees you can see are usually on land. Compare this pic with the shot 3 pics below that was taken about 9am yesterday morning.
We've had more rain over the past 24 hrs and the bridge went under again today, so we are now flooded in, rather than out, which is a much nicer feeling. The bridge should be in the middle of this pic. You can see a car on the left hand side which has had to stop because it's unable to cross.
If you go back to the earlier posts on the creek revegetation you'll see some pics taken from similar spots. That will show you just how much land is underwater at the moment. The flood has caused me to rethink the creek revegetation strategy. I might not be able to do too many plantings in the flood zone unfortunately, not only does the prolonged submersion affect the plants but the force of the surge down the creek pushes over what is growing as you can see with the 2 metre high wild tobacco bushes that had looked a picture last week and I was going to use them as a canopy to underplant rainforest species. Back to the drawing board.
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