Hay floats away!

The recent good weather has produced a Spring for making hay.
But when the river breaks it's banks, everything on the river flats either goes under or floats away.
Must be heartbreaking for farmers to see scenes like this, hay floating down the river :-(
Hopefully, someone down river will rescue these runaway bales!

2010 flood.

 

Yesterday the water was at the level of the 1984 flood mark, today it's level with 1952.
Still some way off 1974 which was the highest in recent living memory anyway.
12 year old at the time, I can remember riding my pushbike into water in the main street at the bottom of Otway street. So, still some way to go before that happens again!

Gundagai in flood!

 
Well it's been an interesting time over the last few days, as the recent rain has filled the Snowy dams to capacity, meaning that the overflow comes down the Murrumbidgee.
After 10 years of drought it's great to see so much water, spare a thought for the farmers who have lost crops & hay. (Hay bales seen floating downstream :-( sadly)
But on the positive side of things, we are thankful for the way this shall replenish ground water supplies & saturate the ground.