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Compare these photos of Henry Angel campground (above) with the ones taken in the September flood, seen here.

The next morning we were greeted with a magical winter in spring landscape. Heavy snowfalls continued throughout Saturday morning, and we personally received four inches of snow, enough for the kids to go skiing and toboganning on our property, a dream we have had since we moved here.

The local wildlife didn't quite know what to make of it!

Travelling around showed us that we must have been one of the first down to the Falls that morning, and with the help that arrived shortly after we started attacking it with a chainsaw, we managed to cut the log to allow others vehicle access down also.

Paddy's River Falls was thundering over in the snow that morning - a spectacular sight, and the shot of the Falls being snow-covered is a bit of a rarity, so I was delighted to be able to catch this one!

Our place and Paddy's River Flats. The campers must have had a bit of a tense night with the water rising in the way it did.

Travelling down to Tooma to see what destruction the collapse of the Mannus Lake Dam wall may have caused down there. The snow ended quite abruptly around Clarke's Hill Rd.

looking upstream towards Mannus	looking downstream
looking towards the cricket ground
looking downstream	looking upstream

It was reported that the dam broke in a controlled manner, but witnesses to the fallout in Tooma said otherwise. Referred to as the Tooma Tsunami, one resident watched the flood come pouring down towards the small community, bringing a swath of desctruction - tinnies, rafts, utes, old sheds, dead old willow trees that were left on the side of the creeks after being poisoned. A lot of cleaning up for the people of a commuity ravaged by fire just last year, and floods twice in a few months.