So the storm passed and the skies cleared. We were very lucky as areas to the North,
West and South of us are proper flooded.
We didn’t even loose any power.
Tristan worked right through the worst of the storms,
clearing roads and power lines of trees and this week they have not stopped
either, the clean up is immense.
On the Monday the skies cleared yet we could hear a roaring
in the distance, we thought it may
possibly be the sea, so I had a slight panic that we would now get a
tsunami! We didn’t, but at low tide the
boys and I went down to see what the beach was looking like and to get out of
the house.
There were trees, branches and fences down everywhere. We made it down to the beach and the roaring
was the sea. I couldn’t see the beach
from the end of the road, so we cautiously parked our bikes further up than
usual and walked down the boardwalk to the beach. It was supposed to be low tide, which usually
means a big beach. There was no beach,
the tide was still right up to the edge and the beach and dunes were covered in
thick, thick foam. I was a bit hesitant
to go any closer but then we noticed loads of families all playing in the foam,
so the boys wanted to. Rowan loved it,
Reuben hated it ‘it’s all ikky and itchy!’
So after finding a tap to wash off Reu’s feet we sat on a
bench and watched the huge tide swash all the foam in and out and the dark
clouds build on the horizon again.
Needless to say we went home as the clouds got closer. We took the path that goes around the outside
of the school grounds on our way home to see how school had faired. The fields were waterlogged, but that was
it.
The school backs onto the dunes (not big sandy dunes like in
Cornwall, but
kind of mangrovey scrub). These dunes
had always been quite dry, but now are totally flooded and teeming with ibis’s
and other water birds and frogs, it was so noisy!
We are now almost a week past the storms, the sun is out and
the ground is wet, mixed together it is super humid. It is back to being 30c, but so humid, you
can’t do anything without sweating like mad!
Also I think the wind has blown itself out after the weekend, so we have
no breeze at the mo to cool it down, thank god we have a pool though :)
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| foam on the boardwalk |
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| the foamy shores and stormy sea and sky |
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| this is the boardwalk we usually go down onto a big beach |
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| it's ikky |
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| woohoo |
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| foamy shores |
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