When the Australian flag isn’t being flown due to strong winds etc, a windsock will be flown.
It is slightly down from the top as it managed to annoyingly find it’s way over the flag pole at one point!
Category: 2026
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Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Lake Richmond, from the boardwalk looking across south to the Richmond Avenue side.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2026
It rain (slightly) the last 2 days! Across January 25 & 26 there was 1.5mm recorded in the rain gauge.
We’ll track the year’s rainfall in the table below, with also the rainfall from the digital rain gauge for comparision.
Date
RangeAnalogue
PeriodAnalogue
YTDDigital
PeriodDigital
YTD01Jan to 24Jan – – – – 25Jan to 26Jan 1.5 1.5 1.1 1.1
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Sunday, 25 January 2026
This is from along the Shoalwater foreshore, by the Lions Park carpark looking across to Penguin Island.
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Saturday, 24 January 2026
More Lake Richmond. This is from the south eastern area looking north west.
Below are a pair of swans and four mature cygnets, in the southern drain.
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Friday, 23 January 2026
Lake Richmond, looking south east from the park off Lake street. Hopeful looking clouds that didn’t bring any more than a few small drops.
More depth of field issues 🙄
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Thursday, 22 January 2026
A cumquat [kumquat] that was planted 08Dec25. It has flowered already and looks like it could set fruit, so appears to have settled in well even though it was planted early summer (it has had some extra hand watering).
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Wednesday, 21 January 2026
The last of the parks that become lakes with strong winter rains that we will track. This is the corner of Fisher Street and Properjohn Drive.
