Sunday 1 April 2018

Sat, 31st Mar, 2018 Malcolm Dam, near Leonora, WA



Rain drops about midnight then strong wind. It continued to drizzle during the night.

7.30am still raining lightly. 21.4 degrees with a cold wind. Dark and dreary.

Rang Anita for her birthday but she wasn’t home – in Brisbane with her sister. Chatted with Brian who will be driving coaches for the Commonwealth Games so he is heading down tomorrow as long as he can get through the floods etc as more rain is predicted down the coast.

Chatted in Kev and Linda’s van till smoko then Linda and I walked down to the big rubbish skip with our rubbish. Then we walked around the lake edge and up the track onto the dam wall to chat with Raylene and Doc.

Dark clouds building in the west and it is clearing in the east and south.

Kev found a friend in the back of his truck – must have hitched a ride on some firewood timber. Very unusual lizard with big spikes along his tail.

Heard some thunder roll then some strong wind and another shower of rain as though black clouds circled around us to the north.

3pm the wind stopped – so still after all the wind.

Geoff and Virginia joined us for drinks and as the sun disappeared we started seeing the lightning strikes in the south west. Had a great time watching a magnificent display of sheet and fork lightning while we had dinner. The sky was clear over us and to the east as the Blue Moon rose (full moons on 1st and 31st March) and we even spotted a few satellites.

A light breeze came up about 9pm as we headed back into the van with the lightning still flashing in the distance heading south east.



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