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[Riverside]

This is what our good rains are like in the territory! When it rains it pours!
Dad took these photos a week or so ago when he went to get a load of cattle in the truck, but when he got there he wasn't too sure if he could get back out again!

storms a brewin

Rain cloud in the distance

Dad drivin down the road in the car to see how wet it is and if he can get out in the truck!

Main access road to the station

Water on the main road (Dad did get out by the way!)

Mount Conner (alot of people seem to mistake this for Ayres Rock not sur why considering it's a different colour!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Great pics.

Gotta be tough ranching in that country. I think snow blowing still beats blowing sand.

 

[efb]

Thanks for posting the photos , I'd like to see more of the cattle industry in your country.

Thanks.

 

[Soapweed]

Your dad is a very good driver to get a truckload of cattle out over those roads. All that rain should really get the countryside green. Great pictures.

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Cool pics Riverside,looks like flashflood country,hope you're able to channel some of that water into a catch basin of some sort.Looks to be fairly dry the rest of the time?

 

[V_Key]

Thanks for ALL your photos _ very educational

 

[Big Swede]

Why do they build roads with no ditches, they look more like canals than roads that we are used to over here. Or do all the sand storms fill up the ditches and make the road lower?

 

[Riverside]

Why do they build roads with no ditches, they look more like canals than roads that we are used to over here. Or do all the sand storms fill up the ditches and make the road lower?

Good question! The roads are only like that in the Northern parts of Australia, there are ditches on the sides of the road but there aren't enough. For some reason when the roads were first made they didn't build them higher than the land and of course over the years when they are graded they keep getting lower and lower which basically makes the into a creek when it rains. Of course now it is too expensive for our governments to do anything about it! At least they are quite hard based roads so when it does rain it is not too often that someone gets bogged.

 

[Cal]

Interesting pictures. Thanks. Does the water in the roads sit there for a long time?

 

[burnt]

Wow! What an interesting country you live in! Thank you for the picture tour.

 

[Riverside]

Interesting pictures. Thanks. Does the water in the roads sit there for a long time?

After a big rain the water can lay in some places for a couple of weeks bit by then it has dissapeared enough that you can usually drive around it!

 

[LimousinGirl]

Looks like beautiful country! Love the first one.