More wetter.

Hello to all you loyal followers and new comers. As most of Australia knows, SA and many other places have had a lot of rain. Now down here in "the Southeast of SA, we have had quite a bit less. "Really?!" I hear you say "but it's always wetter in the SE." Well not at the moment. Whilst we're still wetter than the average year we didn't get the rain that most places got. We're almost half in comparison to Adelaide. As you would have read we're excited here at Bush Haven Cottages about the water accumulating in the swamps. Well we're still excited because even though we've had less it's still more and our swamps are (after today) at the highest level for about 15 years!
​Here ar some picks taken today and below those are pics to compare from July:- 

In front of Rose cottage is a hollow (depression) which never holds water. It actually drains away very quickly. We have only seen it full twice in the 23 years we've been here. One of the times it filled was after a couple days of very heavy rain and then it was all drained away 12 hours later. Now that's no mean feat I might add, this hollow would hold the equivalent of a very large inground pool and it drained through the soil. The second time this hollow filled was a few years later but this time it stayed full for some time which was puzzling. then we realised that it was staying full because the swamp was overflowing in to it at a rate fast enough to keep it full. So this morning we discovered that the swamp is at a height where it is now flowing into the hollow again. Ooooh! Exciting!
​It would be really nice to put a canoe in the hollow again and have a paddle around again. I wonder if the weather will deliver a couple really wet days so that we can?

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. If nothing else, the ground and catchment has had a much needed catch-up. And about time too.