Although we are in the midst of the rainy season it has actually been remarkably dry this week. There have been a few occasions when it looked as though we were about to get a downpour but the reality has seldom made it to the coastal regions. The threatening skies are quite impressive though. I took this picture driving from the office to the club one lunchtime, the sea ( with clear blue sky ) is to the right. The storm clouds, complete with lightning, are inland but once again the rain did not reach us.
But the weather causes other strange effects at this time of year. I shared a picture of the beach at the club in an earlier posting; a nice, clean, sandy area as you would expect. I had been told that there were occasions when the beach would be covered in wood chippings driven ashore by the storm tides, these being a by product of the local timber industry. Well I didn’t think too much of that until I saw the reality.
The whole beach looked as though it was a rocky foreshore at low tide and on closer inspection the depth of the wood shipping layer can be seen. One outgoing tide has already started to cut runnels through the thick mat of chippings.
But not to worry apparently, although this looks pretty catastrophic the next storm tide is likely to scour the beach clean again.
Otherwise life marches on, I have a house and expect to be able to move in early December and I think that I have found a car. More soon ….
