Last week before the big trip

Hello everybody,

it has been ten days since my last blog entry, sorry for that. I was quite busy with work again and had some troubles with the internet here. Anyway ... Sience my last entry it has been very wet again around the Border Region, there were several flood warning in the media present. After some heavy rainfalls during the nights and in the last week , the Hume Dam, which is already at 100% capacity, needs to drain water out of the reservoir to prevent damage to the Dam. Because Albury and Wodonga are downstream, our feet got wet here.

On Sunday I have been up to the Dam and had a look myself. Very impressive! Besides the regular car pa for the Dam, I found a small offroad track down to the dam foot and went to had a closer look.

You can clearly see ... Its FULL!

The administration even opened a second gate to handle all the water masses to drain the reservoir.

The small hidden and wet path to the best lookoutpoint just beneath the dam.

Me down at the river just under the dam. Looks flooded behind me ...



In town it's quite okay, damages are only in the parks as they act as natural overflow for the river. But during the heavy rain, many streets flooded because the gutters couldn't take more water. The soil is completely saturated with water, so every additional drip is surface water running to the lowest point.

But I am glad, that the rain is over now. At least that's what the weather guys tell us. I ll start my trip on Friday, Toni will be here on Thursday. Looking forward getting out of this village and have a look around.

Last Friday I have been to a BBQ/Party of one of my colleagues. It was a nice typical Australian BBQ with Bristish style sausages ... Not that nice, but the salads and the other stuff was superb. I don't know how it happened, I had to play Santa Claus for approx. 13 kids aged 7 and under later the evening. A Santa with German accent ? LOL, whatever, they were all very happy and the kids were quite convinced as all their dads were there too. Only that German Dude was missing during Santas visit ...

Afterwards I was in the urgent need for beer. It got very late that friday evening ....