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Exploring around Victoria's Surf Coast on the weekend caught us by surprise: after the recent heavy rains which have inundated both Melbourne and the Coast, we were astounded to find a dramatic drop in the river level in Torquay. It did not take us long to find the cause.
Spring Creek broadens out into a small lake (I'm being generous) near its mouth, and often does not flow into the sea. The sand build up at its mouth creates a largely stagnant billabong where it should empty into the sea. Only once in recent years have I seen it breached: a small rivulet only a matter of centimetres wide and of less than ankle depth ran across the sands to the sea. Not this weekend. A fast flowing stream, still less than a metre deep and a couple of metres wide, emptied into the sea. Although there had been no rain in the week since we had last seen it, the surge of water from upstream had cleared the mouth of the river. The beach has been significantly reshaped by the consequent flow.
Our attention was drawn to it by the much dropped level of the river a hundred metres or so upstream. The flood plains of the previous week were gone. The high tide now journeyed some way inland, entering the previously stagnant billabong and dumping seaweed much further up the beach, which itself was much less steep than before.
Cleansing storms. Unpleasant. Turbulent. Threatening. But cleansing.
Maybe the hard times in our life have potential to bring a similar cleansing in the aftermath of the turbulence.
Posted by gary at February 13, 2005 09:02 PM
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