A Land of Flooding Rains

In the famous poem by Dorothea Mackellar Australia is described as a land of  'droughts and flooding rains'. Well we've seen evidence of drought in our travels, and the Coffs Coast is now providing the flooding rains. Last night we experienced 160 mm in less than 12 hours, and this morning looks like there might be more coming. The noise of such heavy rain is magnified on the caravan roof, at one stage we had the tv turned up to 100% volume and still couldn't make out the program. We spent half the night lying in bed listening to it pound down on the roof just a couple of metres above our heads, and feeling thankful that we have an indoor loo in the van so we didn't have to dash across the park in the downpour.

Amazingly, this morning the park shows little evidence of the overnight storms, apart from some very miserable looking folk huddled outside their soggy tents. Obviously this area is used to having to cope with Dorothea's flooding rains!

We're still at Coffs Harbour watching our house move slowly towards completion. We still don't have a hand-over date, but it certainly won't be this year, so we'll head off on the road again once the school holidays approach, and return at the end of January to, hopefully, move in within a week or two.