Went for a quick look at the water around today's high tide to see what the Pine was like. Amazingly, when I got to Deep Water Bend ramp there was a trailer in the car park and no sign of the owner - I guess you'd be OK under the bridges. The water was right up into the car park and all through the picnic area, but the river itself was fairly calm and I couldn't see any floating debris at this stage. There was a bit of water (about 20cm deep) over the road into DWB but nothing to worry about. It was interesting to note that the water, instead of flowing out of the swamp into the mangroves, because of the high tide was flowing out of the mangroves and into the swamp!
I then went across the Houghton Highway where the breakin waves going up the Pine and into Haye's Inlet were quite spectacular. Looking out across the Bay from Scott's Point was also pretty awesome although visibility was fairly low.
The esplanade along the front of Sandgate was closed for most of its length with most of the streets leading down to it blocked off, so I didn't bother joining the crowds walking down to have a look. A large fig tree had been blown over up on the hill at Shorncliffe and the yachts in the marina in Cabbage Tree Creek were bouncing around a bit in the swell coming into the creek. For some reason none of the stalls selling prawns off the trawlers were open.
Maybe I'll wait until tomorrow!
Cheers Freeeedom
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Originally Posted by kingcray
