Cabin fever and the Myponga reservoir!

We have had a weekend of ferocious winds and lashing rains, so we were unable to do anything outside much other than getting in wood to keep the fire going and to feed the chooks. The poor Tawny is sitting on his nest exposed to all the fierce winds and torrential rain. I hope he manages to save his eggs. I am astounded at the sense of duty( I know, it is instinct....) to sit on a few sticks with the eggs and nothing to shelter him. It would be tempting to put a little roof over his head.....

Today we thought we had better do Something or go quite mad, and this is after only a few days of house confinement!! no wonder Northern Europeans have cabinfever after a winter of being at home because of the freezing cold and snow. So after lunch we took our cameras and trotted off  (well... in the comfort of my Subaru)
through the water flowing on our road and elsewhere, and went to the Myponga reservoir to see if that was overflowing. The photo above was taken the last time we were at the Myponga
dam when it was full late July.

We have had over an inch of rain here but the Myponga catchment area is in a much higher rainfall area. So sure enough, when we got there
(with a few other people with the same idea) we saw the water pounding through the sluice gates and away down the gully which will run down to the sea. It is a stirring sight to see all that water rushing down the spillway. So good to think we will have good water for the coming summer.
The Myponga dam services most of the Fleurieu.

The photo of the close up of the foamy water looks just like lace. I took that with my Nikon D80 and the zoom lens. I still have a lot to learn about photography but I am plugging away at it.
Don't forget that you can click on the photos to enlarge them, for those who perhaps are not aware of this.
After we started to feel a bit frozen standing out in this cold wind having the cobwebs blown out of our heads, we went that little bit further and looked at Carrickalinga beach where the sea was pounding the beach.There was a little Kestrel hovering but by the time I got my camera out again he had drifted too far away.....We came home via the valley which has become a wetland and when we got home , the rain had stopped!!