A lorikeet feather - who would have guessed it was such an elegant thing?We have been having wild weather - record rainfalls (400 mm (15.7 inches!) in 24 hrs) up on Bribie Island; the dam people (water engineers, not unpleasant locals!) are quite happy - among the three major local dams they report that an 8 month supply (at average water usage rates) fell in 24 hours! But we also had big time flooding, much tree damage, one death.
The wind and rain coincided with a new moon so tides were extra high. The wind driven waves were HUGE - all the beaches closed for 2 days, and an enormous amount of erosion occurred - the beaches are scoured with a huge loss of dune area (and stabilizing vegetation), many of the fences protecting the dunes are gone, walkways eroded. All paths leading to the beach now end in 1-3 m sand cliffs - so that seaward dune edge will continue to collapse to its angle of repose.
Quite a mere "low pressure trough"!)
Lots of pictures of things to follow. The semester has started for both of us and I have many "brilliant academic papers" keeping me way too ...bisy-backson.
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