wivenhoe sunday rambling

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 This week we visited Wivenhoe Dam where they are letting out in a week the equivalent of a year of water supply to brisbane.

The water escaping was spectacular

However no pictures as there was no stopping on the dam wall.

So we did a walk around the dam and saw the level it had reached.

It was apparently well over 120% full when they released water that led to the extension of flooding in the brisbane River...

SOMEWHERE AROUND 36 DEGREES CELSIUS ON THIS WALK

TOOWOOMBA RANGE RAMBLES

Picnic overlooking the  Lockyer valley

The Lockyer valley was the area destroyed by the creek of the same name. The media name  it an inland Tsunami and it started in the Toowoomba City outskirts with a deluge of rain which transformed quickly to a flash flood.

The raging waters shock suprised with death and devastation the Toowoomba CBD then swept over the range into the Lockyer Creek catchment and swept away houses,farms,villages,towns in its path.

It was sobering to think about this as we walked down the range into the valley and skirted the cliffs of this now beautiful and peaceful place.

TABLETOP MOUNTAIN

" there are snakes in this long grass"(Betty)

STAND BY ME AROUD THE WORLD