More of the floods and wind.

More photos of the floods back at the beginning of this month.  The below photo was taken from a small bridge, a much improved bridge I must say - it is just up the road where my husband and I lived for the first 8 years of our married life.  Being a city girl, I loved living in the country and that river, though not wide is called the Liffey River and it's where I used to swim as it's fairly deep.  On really hot days I would take a tractor tyre tube and my Labrador dog and off we would go swimming.  Also on hot days when the men had finished carting bales of hay they would come down to the river jump in to cool off.

Then we would walk up the road such a short distance and I would cook them their evening meal.

Do keep in mind the water was a lot cleaner and it normally is but of course in the photo it's been stirred up by the rain and flow.

The photo above is at the end of the road and on the side of the road heading towards Launceston, where I live.  The storm and wind broke off these trees.

Further along the main highway we came across this area which is called Westwood, and the photo was taken from the Westwood Bridge.

It was a lovely drive even though it wasn't sunny, good to see the lambs..  The below photo is a small quarry opposite the lambs.

A house/farm in the Westwood area and the flood area on the way back to the main road/highway.

Up the Liffey

The other day we ventured up the Liffy, a small town nestled under one area of the Great Western Tiers.  In the 2nd and 3rd photo you can see a house which once belonged to Dr. Bob Brown a founder of the Green Party to do with Politics.  Much is written about him and you can read a little [ here ] if you are interested. 

Liffey also has a beautiful waterfall but it's a climb plus a good walk from the bottom to get to the top, There is also good access from the top via Deloraine in the north west about 50 km from home here.

Part of the Great Western Tiers.

The above photo makes me wonder when people are going or coming around that corner too fast how they don't run into that tree!

The Liffey River which normally is flowing but it is summer still.

Photo of the falls off the internet.

When my husband and I were much, much younger we used to often visit the Liffey Falls, in those days there wasn't a road that was close to the falls so we used to climb up hills, slip back down, fall in the Liffey River but gosh we had fun.  No camera back then to document our trips.