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As of 20th December 2019 after the worst drought in living memory our creek has almost completely dried up and is expected to rapidly lose what water is lying in the bottom over the next week as the predicted heat wave arrives.
With the Australia wide average temperature record (40.3 degrees celcius) broken (40.9 degrees Celcius) on Wednesday 18th December its very likely in the days leading up to Xmas 2019 will see the record broken once again.
The water present in the creek here is minimal but it does continue to provide a home for a large eel and no doubt yabbies and other species.
With level 4 water restrictions in place, no water in the environment, and much of the Hallidays Point area burnt out, firstly by the Darawank Fire then a few weeks later, by the Hillville Fire, many birds and other animals have found sanctuary on our property.
With so little natural water in the environment we have provided lots of water containers around the property to aid their survival. We have also begun providing some pelletised food for the wallabies, water dragons, goannas and birds.
Despite no rain for many months a shaded section of the property is actually holding some green grass and the Red Necked Wallabies have found it and are never too far away as the drought further impacts their precarious existence.
The boys seen here in this image are from Lille in France and they stayed with us from the 10th till 22nd December 2019 under the banner of an organization known as Help Exchange.
Under Help X guidelines travellers can request to stay in our home in return for 3-5 hours of work per day. We provide a bed and 3 meals a day and we also show them around the local area.
We have really enjoyed meeting usually very well educated young people who travel Australia using Help X.
The two boys here in this image are both 22 years old and the darker haired boy, Pierre, has almost finished a business law degree while Quentin has almost finished a construction engineering degree back home in France.
The work they have done during their time with us has been very much appreciated. That work has involved digging out gravel that has collected in the creek over the last 10 years, since I last dug it out myself.
Its been a huge job as the gravel has had to be transported to an area beside my tractor shed which is some distance from the creek and difficult to access with the mower and trailer.
The job has taken at least 7 days to complete, although the boys have done many other jobs during their time with us including watering plants, felling dead Bangalow Palms and wood collection.
Unfortunately they must move on and on Saturday 22nd December they will head to Sydney, after which they will begin a road trip in Australia.
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