Friday, 26 August 2022

Embracing nature

G'day folks. I do alot of walking both in town and in the surrounding countryside. I offer you a few pictures of events that captured my attention. One recent trip took Dot and me out to Dumaresq Dam which once provided Armidale with a stable water supply. Nowadays it's a great recreational feature where people can sail boats, fish, stage barbecues or walk nature trails amongst other things.

While still techinically winter, the day was very warm and the sky cloundless. The first two pictures below express the beauty of the place and quite a few people had driven there to embrace nature.



The third picture is not so welcoming but tells another interesting story. The Armidale Regional Council has spent a lot of money raising the dame wall to increase water storage. This has taken many months, but when we arrived the raised wall was complete and relvant machinery had been removed.


I look forward to doing a complete loop of the dam in coming months, but the trail across the front of the dam is not yet finished. Interestingly, Spring has arrived earlier than usual in our part of the world. Plants are flowering early and I have been amazed at the beautiful yellow flowering wattle bushes . Wattle day is c. 1 September, but this year they were in full boom early in August. Maybe this is further evidence of global warming.



Our winter has been much wetter than usual as water temperatures have soared along both Australia's east coast and the continent's far north-west. The rain has been mostly welcomed where we live but many coastal communities have experienced severe flooding. One benefit of greater rainfall is shown in the next two picture. In early August one gentle rain shower generated agorgeous rainbow shown here from two diffferent angle. The rain was close, but I was not affected.


Cheers,

Tony

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