Flooding Rain

I should probably mention that it's been raining here. A lot.

It's the wet season, but frankly I don't really consider that to be an excuse. This is supposed to be the Sunshine State, after all.

Still I suppose the plants needed it; but it's been going on a month now, at least up until fairly recently, and it's raining outside right now. Enough.

There have been major floods in Central Queensland. Reportedly an area the size of the state of Victoria has been submerged. All the water is now working its way down into the Murray-Darling Basin (that'll be the main river complex in Australia for the unaware) and down through NSW and VIC and into SA. It will be the first time for a while that that much water has made it down the river without being pumped out along the way by the thirsty irrigators..

For us, no floods to speak of, apart from the occasional flash-flood in the city (the severity of which may have been exaggerated in reports). The brook has been high, bursting its banks one day we were there, but for us the main thing is that the creeks have been flowing in the forests, even in Samford Forest which is usually bone-dry.

In a change of plan, on none of the raining days have we decided to go to the beach.