Beside the house we had in Australia there was the most beautiful little stream that would babble away almost every day. Every day except those days there was a STORM!
A sound like a freight train could be heard as this great wall of water could be seen hurtling down the hill after any decent amount of rain, quickly turning our gentle stream into a raging torrent.
Then as quick as it began, it would be return to the stream it once was, just with a little more debris hanging from its edges!
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So beautifully described how the stream would change with the rain. Beautiful and so tropical
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Thank you, that stream was the selling point for us buying that house. The wildlife that would frequent it was phenomenal – lizards, snakes, birds, goannas, kangaroos, bats, possums, and even had an echidna on one occasion!
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Echidna..humm never heard of that. What is it? I can only imagine how it was eden.
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The Echidna is Australia’s spiny ant-eater. Its like a porcupine but different – it doesn’t climb and its only tiny – really nothing like it except for the quills, lol!
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Now that is really interesting, and I bet he’s really cute.
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He’s GORGEOUS, I’ll to search my archives when we get back from leave next week to see if I still have my blurry shot of him, lol! 🙂
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Now that would be cool to share. Thanks Joanne.
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I love this picture, Joanne! Nature is sometimes unpredictable, but always beautiful!
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Thank you and yes, nature should NEVER be taken for granted and ALWAYS respected!
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What a great photo. The sounds of a babbling brook can be so relaxing! On the other hand, I hope you didn’t have to contend with any flooding during the storms. 🙂
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Funny you should say that! We were on the side of a hill so I would brag how I didn’t have to worry about flooding… Although the creek never flooded it did span as much as 12 feet on one occasion, FLOODING the road in front of our house. Water seeped in EVERYWHERE that day resulting in the garage flooding where I was storing everything to go into a garage sale before moving here. Talk about a mess!
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Ouch, sorry to hear that!
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I love that photo with it’s wet foliage. You have really captured the force and ferocity of the water in this shot. Water can be so gentle or so dangerous. You can see how quickly people and objects could be swept away by it.
Water is not easy to photograph and yet you have done it!
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Thank you. When you know you’re safe it makes it much easier to photograph! The following year we had the most devastating floods with an inland tsunami which no one was prepared for. Respect for water took on a whole new meaning…
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Such wonderful imagery in your words. I like how you blurred the edges of this image to bring attention to the water in the center.
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Thank you so much Jennifer – your weather challenge is going to have me REALLY thinking – I like it! 🙂
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Thank you so much. And no problem 🙂
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The sound though, still quite something right? even with the torrent? 🙂
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The sound even with a stream that small was INCREDIBLY loud. The first few times it happened we didn’t know WHAT was going on as the sun was already out again by the time the water began gushing down the hill!
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So even small things have loud voices eh lol
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