Admiral Harold Hickling was in the final throes of writing the first cut of his classic book Freshwater Admiral, including maps of the famous Tongariro River pools. This was some time in 1958. Just then it started raining, the rain turned into a deluge, the deluge into a 1 in 100 year flood and woomph the whole river was decimated beyond recognition, undoing a year and a bit of his painstaking work. After all, he did write everything in long hand, with a pen. Goddam! That he sat down, rewrote and remapped the whole shooting match is probably testament to why he ended up being an admiral in charge of whole fleets of ships, back when great Britain had real fleets.
Utilising a keyboard, spell check and all the mod cons I started this blog session thinking of poor TT who took 10 days off to fish the Wanaka district and has been faced with brown water, mobs of ducks and geese mocking him and not a trout in sight. I was bemoaning the lack of rain here again. Here in the middle of Auckland it just wasn't falling, despite the good wife telling me that it was heaving down on the shore. Then the heavens broke. I went oustide to watch the first heavy rain I've seen in about 4 months. I hope the swamp got a dose, even a surface flush would be a bonus. Not that it will help the dry ponds all that much unless it persists, but damn its rain!!!
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