Sumberged trees in Jindabyne Lake
I walked in to the town of Jindabyne this morning, a walk of about 7 km return. It was a nice warm morning, and several others were on the trail either biking or jogging. I went to a hardware store and got some cable ties and another water hose. When I returned I tried raising the level of the water intake tube for our front tank by tying it to a support. Then I removed it from the tank end, and got thoroughly soaked in the process, as I was lying on my back under the motorhome in order to undo the clamps. After the intake hose was off we ran water into the tank through the new hose and it worked fine, so I put the hose back on. When I did so water would no longer run into the tank! I undid the cable tie so that the intake hose again is sagging, then pushed the water hose far into the tube so that it went past the bend. That seemed to work the best, so I guess that will have to be the way we fill the second tank.
Late this afternoon we went for a swim in the lake. The water is very high because of all the rain, so that large trees that normally would be part of campsites right along the water are under at least ten feet of water. In fact, there are no campsites along the water since they have all been flooded. The walkway and steps to the water are all flooded, so we walked out about two metres on the steps and were waist deep in water. We swam back and forth along the shore for a while, but it wasn’t very warm this afternoon so we didn’t stay in the water too long.
Tomorrow we will be heading into camp in Kosciuszko National Park for a couple of days, so we may not have Internet access.