Day: December 29, 2010

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We tried – honestly, we did

We tried – honestly we did
It’s sort of an unknown fact
that along with the Melbourne Cup
it’s your national duty
for you to listen or watch the cricket
especially the Boxing Day Test
The time between Christmas and New Year
is when we rest and relax
For the majority its time to unwind
before the hassles of the next year begin
For our Test cricketers its business as usual
Some may say it’s been a busy year for them
This schedule shows they started the year in Pakistan
and then travelled the world plying their trade
till this last series of matches
against England (aka The Poms) here in Austalia
 The Ashes
Our national team has been trying their best to win them back
but it really hasn’t gone the way they hoped
As I say
We tried – honestly, we did
and don’t take me as a bad loser
(even tho’ we haven’t really lost yet)
but it just became an embarrassment
Yesterday we turned the tv off 
fed up with watching all those strange
very noisy (barmy) white skined supporters
who are gradually turning pink with sunburn
from all the time they are spending in the sun
yelling and singing 
just like they are at a soccer match 
(and whoever gave that man a trumpet needs to be shot)
Runs weren’t scored – wickets fell – there was a run out
England now need to take 3 wickets
and they have retained the Ashes
To clear our mind of all those problems
we went for a drive up into the nearby hills
The weather was great
The afternoon out involved some walking
Down broad paths in the forest
and up rough steps near our goal
Water was involved
but I’ll leave that for another day lol
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Watery views

Like I was telling you recently (and just about every other Aussie Blogger has been saying so as well) here in Australia we’ve had an awful lot of water falling from the sky.  Ours has been coming down in great big wet drops, splashing on the ground and laying around, unlike the stuff in the Northern Hemisphere where it’s coming down as fluffy white bits landing softly and also laying around.  Up there and down here it has got beyond a joke and is causing all sorts of problems.  Floods for us – Snowstorms for them – it almost seems as tho’ someone has had it in for all of us lol

Anyway, not content with seeing it coming down from the sky for goodness knows how long Dh has been treating me to day trips to see it from a different angle.  Before Christmas we had that day down at the beach and down at the cape- then Christmas Day he took me out to see a small waterfall in our Yarra Ranges National Park close to Healesville. 
I did show you some of this in an earlier post – see here
hopefully you won’t feel cheated and that this post will be as interesting as the previous one

To actually get to the National Park gates we had to cross a ford on Donnelly Creek – and because of all the rain we’ve had there was a fair bit of water laying there.


Its a funny feeling when you are approaching a ford
and wondering what you are going to find.
Wondering how much water there is there and how deep its going to be
Maybe I’ll be able to judge more easily if I get a bit closer
And then the relief that the car doesn’t have a problem as you are travelling through it
Now we come to the actual Weir itself
This photo of Donnelly Weir taken in 2007
We were in drought at the time so there wasn’t much water going over it
photo source
And heres what it looked like on Christmas Day
All this area was burnt out during the Black Saturday Bushfires February 2009
but has made remarkable regrowth helped along by all the rain we’ve had this year
If you look at this website
  You will see more photos of the area in drier times
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