Rain at Well 12 ~ Short Report from Wayne

We were there in July '05...

Having camped south of Savory Ck., we awoke to a heavily overcast sky.. Around mid-morning, it started to drizzle, steadily increasing in intensity as the day went on..
When we arrived at Durba Spring late in the arvo, it was steady soaking rain, and the creek was already running quite strongly..

Having set up camp (in the rain!), I placed a suitable receptacle (billy-can;-)) out in the open to collect the rain.. next morning I measured 70mm.. Thats almost 3 inches in the old money, folks!!

Needless to say, we weren't going anywhere that day (not that we intended to, anyway;-))...

And to say that the Durba Gorge after that deluge was a sight to behold is a gross understatement!! .. "Breathtaking" barely does it justice.........
something not a lot of people would get to see, I'd imagine...

That's a memory that will stay with me for a very long time..

Interesting - Do you know how far east the rain got to?

Will be in the Gibson shortly.

Cheers

I won't be skedding for another week so I didn't note the info in detail. We would advise any of our VKS members to keep in touch with our volunteer staff at Perth and/or Derby bases before venturing into those areas after rain - the bases usually have good up to date info on the regions in their 'backyard'. For example, we have some staff travelling around Warakurna right now (came up from Warburton in the last day or two) - they would be feeding info back to the network if there is anything of note.