It’s been raining rather heavily over the past few days in the South-east of Queensland.

Once again I’ve been flooded in. I would be rather happy about this, but I’m currently fighting off a sickness of some sort, so I can’t really enjoy it.

The Mary River is due to peak at around 12m in Gympie, rather a small flood by historical standards.

I was shocked this morning as I headed off to work at 4am and nearly ran into the water. The rain had stopped the previous day (Monday) but obviously there was still a lot of water to come down from the headwaters of the Mary River.

Once I had returned to the house I checked the pump (hooked up to a Dam that is within flood reach). While doing this, a local lady drove her Toyota Corolla into the flooded crossing at Happy Jack Bridge. I have a photo here and the Corolla is still in the water somewhere.

I took the Fearless Squirrel out to take some photos this morning.

Now that the Sun is back out, the snakes are taking advantage of the nicer weather and coming out to warm up. I dispatched two brown snakes this morning. Normally I’d leave them alone, but I don’t want them around the houses. The local Kookaburra snapped them up the moment I had “sorted” them. I was surprised she could eat both of them, then even more surprised she could actually fly afterwards.

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