Exploring March - Rain Delay

 As many people will have seen, New South Wales recently had record breaking, once-in-a-century-type rainfall. Rivers flooded, spiders sought high ground, and snakes jumped into boats to save themselves from the deluge. Drew, Lady Marmalade, and I stayed high and dry in Erskineville, lucky to be up-stream from any sewage drains or creek beds.

Drew and I were supposed to go camping with our neighbours last weekend at the Wombeyan Caves and Mares River Reserve. We were going to do this really cool canyon swim that I had been looking forward to since around Christmas, when Drew was given the Wild Swimming book as a gift. 

We held out hope that the weather would turn for the weekend, but alas, the predicted rainfall amount only kept rising, and we decided it would be foolish to tempt fate. Normally, you could bet on NSW weather to end up being pretty nice, but not this time. And, just to confirm our decision, the campground announced it would be closed, and refunded our booking fee. 

I think for this particular camping trip we'll now have to wait until next summer. The days are getting shorter and the Caves are in the mountains, which are a few degrees cooler than Sydney temperatures. That means that now we're into territory where it wouldn't be quite as much fun to jump into cold water! 

Sadly, we have not had an official adventure this month. 

On the bright side, the rain has stopped, and the garden looks excellent. The sea is greener than normal from all the rain - golden green waves were curling at Manly yesterday when we went surfing. 

Here's hoping we can get some fun adventures in for April - maybe double up!