Bart Bear's Blog

It's still raining and the dams are still filling up, so we went and had a look at another one. This is Scrivener Dam and it is an important one for Canberra because it is the one that keeps the water in our lake, Lake Burley Griffin. The top photo is taken from the picnic area on the lake side of the dam wall. You can see that the water is right up to the top of the dam wall. The bottom photo is from a car park on the other side of the wall and you can see water spurting out from one of the flood gates. It was a bit more spectacular a couple of days before when more gates were open but the Oldies wouldn't take me out in the rain to see it. It's great to have rain again. Every plant is growing like mad and all the bushes are flowering again. Of course that means that grass is almost head-high in places (and that's Oldie head-high, not small bear head-high). That means problems for people with big lawns but I am safe from being shanghaied into the mowing gang because we live in a town house with a paved courtyard. I just watch the rain and enjoy the change from the dry, brown country of a few months ago.

Labels: Canberra, dam