Roar!

Well the precipitation DID continue. In fact over the last 36 hours we have received approximately 150 mm of rain and it continues unabated. Since recent improvements to the steps leading down to the Katoomba Cascades, it is much easier and safer to get there in wet conditions. The flow was the heaviest I have ever seen there because in the past I have always had to wait a few days after heavy rain before making the trek - by which time the flow had always settled down a little.

In order to convey something of the violence with which the water was descending I went for a high shutter speed in preference to my more usual "slow water" treatment. But I have included one of the low shutter speed attempts as an extra.

A week ago this was almost a dry water course (such has been the weather during May) and lots of weeds have grown up in soil bearing crevices. In the extra you can see that one lucky little weed has survived the onslaught of water but you can also see how precarious its existence presently is.