The Whanganui River flooded badly this last weekend causing major damage and disruption in the city. The large quantity of rain also caused surface flooding in low lying areas as well as hundreds of slips in the wider district. Photographers were out in numbers capturing the scene, but I was particularly interested in what it would look like at the river mouth where the angry river met an incoming tide. The sight was spectacular and the river turn the ocean brown with the sea looking more like sand dunes than salt water. Great quantities of wood were being launched out to sea and I even saw a fridge pass by. All has settled down now but a big clean-up remains.
