We live in the driest inhabited continent. Over the last 48 hours we’ve had more than 75 mm rain (3 inches, you Brit.s!).  That is a lot of rain.  At times it was so heavy that it was difficult to see the trees in our back garden!  Fortunately at no stage have we been caught outside during a downpour.  This morning it cleared up, and as we could hear the creek running in the valley below our house, I (David) decided to go down and have a look.

Walking down to Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek, in the little valley below our house in Mount Riverview.

As you can see, there is water in what is usually a dry water-bed at the bottom of the valley.

There were some extraordinary mushrooms.

A huge amount of water in the main part of Cripple Creek – as much as I have ever seen there.

The “down” side was that the other creeks were flooded also, and the one in StMarys had risen almost to cover the pitch where Nick was supposed to play cricket today.