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Yeppoon’s Flooding – Heavy Rain, Roads Closed, and Big Floods

UPDATE: Amazingly showcasing the abrupt changes of weather that are possible, the rain here has now (2PM) stopped and the sun is shining! I went and had a look at the intersection and water is still flowing over, but I could ride across. There are lots of those big, heavy, plastic roadwork blockades that have been washed down the creek, too.

The title says it all. Currently we are having some very heavy rain as a result of a tropical low that is moving down the coast. Heaps of roads are closed, including the one on our corner. So now we are basically unable to drive into Yeppoon. About half an hour ago I put my swimmers on and went outside to look at the flooding. What I saw amazed me, because this is the first time in my life I’ve seen flooding personally.

I had previously prepared some alternative pictures for this, but that was yesterday before we got the real flooding. So I dumped those pics and I am using the photos that I took half and hour ago. They reflect what is happening here right now. Sorry for the blurriness of some, I had to wrap the camera in a bag to protect it from the rain. BTW a local who was just outside our driveway waiting to get through said that this area hadn’t had flooding like this for 17 years!

The road at our corner is currently closed, although 4wd are able to get through. I will try to take some more pictures, maybe one down at the big bridge when I can get through. That would be really thundering right now!

A general overview of the corner.

The water thundering into our back paddock and then into the neighbours.

Looking up north in the opposite direction. The water in this picture is only about shin height.

A closeup of the water flooding over the enbankment.

February 12, 2008 – 12:26 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park, Yeppoon | Also tagged bungundarra, creek, flooding, rain, water, woodbury | Comments (4)

Alpaca Photos

Alert Alpaca This Sunday I went with some friends to the Rockhampton Heritage markets to help them with their macadamia stall. On the way back home we stopped in at the Alpaca farm on 444 Cobraball road, because they were having an open day (which we’d read about in the paper). We had known the people from previously, because the man runs a tiling business and tiled some of our house. They lived nearer to us until recently, when they moved into the new place on Cobraball road.

Anyway, the Alpacas were really cute, and I had a great time taking photos of them. They were also giving out food to feed the Alpacas, because otherwise they tended to shy away if you came near. Alpacas can spit, but fortunately for us they didn’t! See below for the photos, and if you want to buy an Alpaca, just give the farm a ring as they sell and breed them.

Alpaca Mother and Baby
A mother alpaca with her 1 day old baby. You might notice that the mothers eyes have a strange blue colour to them. Alpacas with those type of eyes are almost always deaf, which I thought was very interesting.

Handfeeding an Alpaca
Another alpaca, also featured at the top of the page, feeding out of someone’s hand.

A baby Alpaca drinking milk
Sorry for the bad quality, but this picture shows the baby alpaca in the second photo drinking a bit of milk.

Alpaca at an interesting angle
An alpaca with character at an unusual angle

[tags]farm, alpacas, pets, animals, yeppoon[/tags]

January 27, 2008 – 6:04 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Yeppoon | Also tagged alpacas, animals, farm, Pets | Comments (4)

A Secret Creek at Kemp Beach

Kemp Beach Creek #7 Just a note to everyone that I have already written a guest post about the creek at Kemp Beach over at Yeppoon Chronicle. If you want to know how to get to the creek, or see more photos, just head over to my post there.

Last Saturday I went with my family to Kemp Beach, because we wanted to explore the creek there, especially after the recent rain. I was a bit disappointed, because it was only flowing under the footpath at it’s usual slow rate. However when we walked up a bit I discovered that it mostly goes underground near the footpath, but further along it flows freely.

Anyway, just a couple of meters into our exploration I spotted a small snake with a yellow belly and a black top sunning itself. It wasn’t scared at all, because even when I stood on the other side of the stream it just stayed put.

Later on I had a glimpse of another snake, and from what I saw I think it was about 3 times thicker with the same markings as the little snake. Unlike the little one, however, he was definitely no hanging around, so he took off as soon as he saw (or heard) me.

Kemp Beach Creek #1
The snake – which I think is a tree snake or a yellow belly.

Kemp Beach Creek #2
As we progressed, we found quite a few small waterfalls such as the one above, although that is more like a minature waterfall.

Kemp Beach Creek #3
Further up, we came out of the fairly dense tree cover and emerged into the open, where we could see up the rest of the hill.

Kemp Beach Creek #4
In one particular spot we found there were heaps of little ferns (I think) growing under a tree.

Kemp Beach Creek #5
We kept going up and entered into some more tree cover, where I found some really brightly coloured tendrils that were creeping across the rocks (in some places there was just sold rock that the water ran over).

Kemp Beach Creek #6
Eventually, after I’d found some really pretty green moss and caught a glimpse of a much bigger snake with the same markings as the small snake, I reached the top. The above is a view over down the creek, over Kemp Beach and Rosslyn Bay, and in the distance, Yeppoon.

[tags]yeppoon, creek, water, kemp beach, mountain[/tags]

January 22, 2008 – 2:18 pm | Posted in Causeway Lake, Kemp Beach & Mulambin, Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists | Also tagged creek, kemp beach, mountain, water | Comments (4)

Yeppoon Chronicle Launches

Yeppoon Main Beach I’ve subscribed to Google Alerts for Yeppoon, and whenever a blog posts something about Yeppoon I get notified. Today as I was looking through the posts I found this post talking about a new blog that the writer had launched.

I went and had a look, and the writer (Monika Mundell, more on her in a moment) had indeed launched a new blog, called Yeppoon Chronicle. The blog already has 5 new, good quality posts. So far it has covered the upcoming opening of the new shopping centre, the upcoming Yeppoon Australia Day celebrations, the extended opening hours for Coles and the rebuilding of the Yeppoon Police station.

Now, more about Monika Mundell. The first thing that struck me was her last name, which is the same as top chef John Mundell, who works at a restaurant at the local boat harbour. Sure enough, when I checked on whitepages.com.au they’re one and the same (married, I guess) She says on her personal about page that she is a chef of 22 years, as well as a blogger and writer.

Anyway, I’ve subscribed to Yeppoon Chronicle and will be looking forward to seeing what Monika publishes over the coming months.

January 16, 2008 – 1:40 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists | Also tagged blogging, monika, mundell, yeppoon-chronicle | Comments (2)

I was called a Little Monkey at Carols by Candlelight, Emu Park

On Sunday night we went to the Carols by Candlelight at Emu Park, which is a town about 1/3 the size of Yeppoon about 15 kilometres down the coast. The main reason we went was because my sisters are part of the Keppel Bay Community Choir, which was singing there.

Once we’d parked and walked over to where the event was going to be held, I looked around for a good tree to climb so I could get a good view of the acts. I found one, and although it had some biting green ants on it I managed to bypass them.

After I was up the tree I looked around for a while, then I took my camera out and took some pictures. People started noticing me. When the man doing the introductions and announcements (he said that he was a compere) came on, it was nearly 7PM. After he had welcomed everybody he said something to the words of “It has come to my attention that there is a little monkey up in that tree, and would the parents responsible please get him down. If you are listening, please come down, because if you fall we’ll be in a big do-do.”

Now for one thing, I object to being called a little monkey but mainly, since when were kids not allowed to climb trees because of insurance issues? It’s a bit like that case in America where someone was suing because they had a snowball thrown at them!

As soon as he’d said that over the speaker system I ducked down out of sight because everyone was craning their heads around to try to get a glimpse of me A lot of little kids were standing underneath the tree as well, trying to see me.

After a while they turned one of the big spotlights off so I was able to stand up again and take some more photos. The trouble with taking pictures up the tree is that my camera doesn’t have a night-proof mode, so unless put the camera on a solid surface it takes slightly blurred photos. I did, however, manage to find a twig which I slotted the camera’s tripod hole onto. When I put it on the timer and stepped down, I could take non-blurred pictures.

This information probably doesn’t mean anything to most people reading this, but the choirs and people singing included the Keppel Bay Community Choir, the band, Brett and Linda Coombes (founders of a local singing academy), the Emu Park State School Choir and the Livingstone Shire Youth Choir (which I though was the best out of the whole lot).

After the compere had closed the carols I climbed back down the tree, but because it was dark I couldn’t see the green ants (actually bubbler ants I think) and was bitten by some. Thankfully they bite rather than sting, but they do have big jaws!

Below are a few of the photos I took.

Emu Park Christmas Carols #1
Looking towards the main “stage.” The people with the blow-out behind them make up the Keppel Bay Community Choir while the people in red were members of a band that came from Rocky to play.

The people to the right of the previous photo. I think more came along later on in the night.

This photo which was created using a low shutter speed captures the movement of the electronic candles which were held by children walking along. I should tell you that the compere organised all the kids (except me) into a parade which went around all the people with tins to raise donations for Anglicare Central Queensland. The kids all received free light sticks as well.
[tags]yeppoon, christmas, emu park, carols, candlelight, trees, climbing[/tags]

December 11, 2007 – 12:04 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Photography | Also tagged candlelight, carols, christmas, climbing, Emu Park, trees | Comments (1)