Anyone who chooses to live where it snows, well, serves 'em right.
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Anyone who chooses to live where it snows, well, serves 'em right.
Deano:)
WOW :) Fantastic photos Spudfan, just fantastic. Thanks for sharing...Quote:
Originally Posted by spudfan
More rainfall at ULURU.
Local landscape photographer Peter Carroll was in the right place at the right time when the rain came bucketing down earlier in the month.
Peter was at Yulara - the township near Uluru when he woke at 3am to the sound of torrential rain.
"It has been a 20 year dream to see Uluru with water pouring down her flanks," writes Peter in his blog, 'so there I lay tossing and turning praying the rain would continue til the crack of dawn.'
Most longtime residents of Central Australia know that the sight of rain on the rock is a rare phenomenon. For a landscape photographer, it's gold. Before the sun had risen, Peter was out there with his camera.
"I had to calm myself a little bit. It was pretty momentous," says Peter.
"I went round to the general car park area where the climb is...and that's where these white stripes started to reveal themselves, it was pretty spectacular."
The result of Peter's work is a spectacular collection of images that show Uluru in a whole new light. Barely recognisable with silver lines snaking down the surface and eerie fog hovering - the images will no doubt find a large audience. Several have already appeared on the front page of The Australian.
Most of the shots were taken near the Mututjulu waterhole, says Peter, and what he heard that morning was just as powerful as what he saw through the lens.
"Once I got out of the car and started walking in, all the noises started to take over," he says.
"When you hear that water rushing down the side, and plummeting over cliffs, it really is a special sound. And because we've had so much rain lately there's just hundreds of thousands of frogs around the place, it was pretty magical."
"I've been down [to Uluru] a lot and whenever I'm down there it delivers some special, special moment..I don't know what the inner workings of it are on the human psyche but it's fairly powerful stuff."
Follow the link to Peter's blog to see more images and read the story in his own words.
(Story taken from Rohan Barwick's interview with Peter Carroll on 783 Drive, ABC Alice Springs)
It is still raining here on Hamilton and playing havoc with the aircraft traffic. Our crew was supposed to fly out on Wednesday, but with cancelled flights and returns, it never happened. We are hoping to get out today......but no guarantee. Oh well, another 20 hours OT........so far.;)
My weekend plans have been quashed. :(
The Poem
SAID HANRAHAN
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Outside the church, ere Mass began, One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about, Coat-collars to the ears, And talked of stock, and crops, and drought, As it had done for years.
"It's lookin' crook," said Daniel Croke; "Bedad, it's cruke, me lad, For never since the banks went broke Has seasons been so bad."
"It's dry, all right," said young O'Neil, With which astute remark He squatted down upon his heel And chewed a piece of bark.
And so around the chorus ran "It's keepin' dry, no doubt." "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out.
"The crops are done; ye'll have your work To save one bag of grain; From here way out to Back-o'-Bourke They're singin' out for rain.
"They're singin' out for rain," he said, "And all the tanks are dry." The congregation scratched its head, And gazed around the sky.
"There won't be grass, in any case, Enough to feed an ass; There's not a blade on Casey's place As I came down to Mass."
"If rain don't come this month," said Dan, And cleared his throat to speak-- "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "If rain don't come this week."
A heavy silence seemed to steal On all at this remark; And each man squatted on his heel, And chewed a piece of bark.
"We want a inch of rain, we do," O'Neil observed at last; But Croke "maintained" we wanted two To put the danger past.
"If we don't get three inches, man, Or four to break this drought, We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out."
In God's good time down came the rain; And all the afternoon On iron roof and window-pane It drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still, And lightsome, gladsome elves On dripping spout and window-sill Kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long, A-singing at its work, Till every heart took up the song Way out to Back-o'Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran, And dams filled overtop; "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "If this rain doesn't stop."
And stop it did, in God's good time; And spring came in to fold A mantle o'er the hills sublime Of green and pink and gold.
And days went by on dancing feet, With harvest-hopes immense, And laughing eyes beheld the wheat Nid-nodding o'er the fence.
And, oh, the smiles on every face, As happy lad and lass Through grass knee-deep on Casey's place Went riding down to Mass.
While round the church in clothes genteel Discoursed the men of mark, And each man squatted on his heel, And chewed his piece of bark.
"There'll be bush-fires for sure, me man, There will, without a doubt; We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out." John O'Brien
John O'Brien aka Patrick Hartigan, a Catholic Priest in the 1920's and not a bad poet.
Deano :)
We have been getting smashed here. The Macquarie river is way up and we have had road closures of some sort all through the district every day for the past 3 days. Alot of places around Parkes and out west look like inland lakes at the moment.
We need it, its good to see the river up so high here and the massive volume of water flowing down stream is awsome so see.
So, anyone know if JDNSW managed to get home? The Talbragar River at Elong Elong is sitting at around the 8 meter level at present. If he managed to get through I hope he took heaps of supplies with him.
I notice on the RTA website that the Golden Highway is presently closed at Uarbry.
Poor farmers - one day drought, next day floods. They can't win at present.
But like ACE said, it will do the rivers good to get a flush out, and this rain will bring the underground water table back up as well.
Cheers, Erich
I think he's planning on staying at Canberra/Yass until about Wednesday.
See post #15