They aren't dying either, the dune vegetation has been stripped of its leaves by the storms last month, and regrowth is just starting to appear on some of the branches.
"Dogs allowed off-leash between 4:00pm and 8:00am".
I have a new camera and am just dying to get out and see if it works, but since it arrived our daily rainfalls have been 50, 42, and 72 mm respectively. That's 2, 2 3/4 and 3 inches near enough, so the closest I can actually get to "out" is onto our front verandah between squalls.
It's not as bad as it looks, sure the storm surge brought exceptionally high tides and our boardwalk which takes us safely under the road to the beach was just a smidgen too low to stay dry. The slope of the deck makes it look much worse than it was though.
On any day a month or two ago, the mouth of Tooway Creek looked a lot like this!
Regular visitors may recall any number of photographs taken at the mouth of Tooway Creek, or Lake, depending on the time of week.
When one's home beach has been subjected to a one in one hundred year storm, one can be excused for milking it for all it's worth for a week or two!
I arrived minutes before the umbrellas were removed, but I was taken by the colour, or perhaps the lack of it. I have published photos before of these umbrellas, against a brilliant blue sky, with the water in the pool a stunning turquoise.
In the twilight, almost half way through the second month of the year a fisherman stands and wonders where the time has gone!
Even in the evening half light the pandanus finds some shade to throw over the grass. I have no idea how as the sun was well below the horizon, but it does.
