28th December 2010

 

These images ahow the normally dry crossing over Ma Ma Creek at the start of Spinach Creek Rd. This is 6km from our house. The day before the creek was 300m wide and several metres deep across the road.

 

Silt and debris more than 100m from the crossing itself.

 

 

The neighbours pump, on a tall post.

 

The neighbours house and fence.

 

A wall of silt about waist high across the road.

 

Approaching the crossing.

 

Looking back from the crossing along Spinach Creek Rd.

 

To get home on the 27th, Peter had to leave the car at Mt Whitestone and hike in across the mountains to avoid crossing Ma Ma Creek. This map shows the approximate path of the trip as far as the last crossing over Spinach Creek (still 4km from home). The hike took 3 hours and ended between two flooded creek crossings. Four long wet hours later Spinach Creek had dropped enough to allow it to be crossed.

 

The last Spinach Creek crossing the day after the trip. The level of the water at the start of the 4 hour wait can be clearly seen. All of the rocks in the foreground were submerged completely.

 

Mudslides on the bank and another view showing how high the water rose the day before.

 

This is the second last crossing over Spinach Creek. Peter was stuck between these last two crossings waiting for the water to drop. Note the grss on the barbed wire showing how high the water was on the previous day.

 

Another view of  the second last crossing over Spinach Creek. Water level was more than a metre higher as can bee seen from the debris tangled in the fence.