Very nice wet season weather down here as well with about half a metre of rain in the past week and some lovely cooler weather maxing out around 30c..

seems to be some excitement from some quarters of this low intensifying and heading back to the coast...guess we just have to wait and see what spins up next week...

So how are you Daintree guys going with the cleanup..?..hope there is not to much damage..

Thought i'd post a before and after pic of my little after-hours swimming hole project that I've been spending an hour or so after work on some days over the past 6 weeks or so with a few productive sessions with my son over xmas to move some of the larger ones that I was struggling with....probably moved about 25 ton of rock so far with the more recent underwater ones having to be prised up from the gravel using dive gear and a heavy weight belt and then rolled out....i generally do an hour or so moving rocks or sometimes less if I'm buggered after a few extra large ones then have a swim with the resident Jungle perch and sit back with a couple of beers to admire my handiwork...

Swimming hole was always a pain due to kicking and kneeing underwater rocks and even having to clamber 5 foot down over slippery steep rocks but now its about a third bigger, deeper and actually swimable and we can now just walk across a flat wall straight onto a shallow gravel beach for easy access...quite amazed myself for an old guy and lost a few kilos of weight and toned up a bit...

I have also been cutting out wait a while and other spiky stuff so come dry season I'll be creating a much easier path down into the gorge,building some concrete steps and generally landscaping it up nicely..Should have done it 20 years ago..

I wish i didnt have to work for a living..I'd much prefer just playing in the bush like a big kid....