flash flood

Wow, what next. we have had two storms in two days. the first sent chocolate mud down the creek and the creek ran for half a day.

The second storm, last night dropped a bucket of water on the hills over the creek above the walnut orchards. And all the hills ran...with gullies torrenting down with charcoal, more mud and earth. Both irrigation holes filled with sheep manure, grass and debris from the orchard.

We have a nice layer of mud on the orchards. which in the long run will be very nourishing and has given all the trees a drink. In the short term it has reduced the pasture for the sheep quite a lot and broke down some fences that only this last week, mike had replaced. And silted up the dams.

Mike reckons about 3000 tonnes of soil has been moved on to the orchards.

Its is really unbelievable....what next?

terrace walk above walnuts

the pump and the dam

update

I have been suprised how many people have read the blogsite and how useful they found it. So I have decided to add just a few more pics, now that we have toured over the property. they will fill in the gaps to some of the earlier blogs.

these pics are of the Shed on the top of the hill that had Andrew's car and various stuff of mikes, including bee keeping gear and lots of cupboards. The pipeline is from the little pump that mike saved going up to the chestnuts.

see next blog.