Hurricane Neil

We've had a series of tropical depressions come over us in the last week due to the Madden - Julian Oscillation lingering and even reversing for a while in the Western Pacific phase. One last night was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane just a couple of hours before it hit us. It was a noisy night. We got a lot of leaves and a bit of rain in the house but otherwise fared quite well. On the positive side we got our water tank entirely filled.

On the downside there's another one due tonight and although it hasn't been named yet it's looking like it might be nastier than the one last night [update Wednesday 13. We had 7 tropical depressions blow over us in the week and there is still another lining up]

The bush in the area has been partly stripped of leaves and is a lot lighter and more open now.

 Lots of leaves strewn around the house

My poor bananas

 And poor papayas

Beach eroded. This beach has lost about 40cm of sand, stripping it bare and showing a collection of old shells. The beach we bring our dinghy up on has lost about 30cm making it a bit tricky to haul it up.

 

There was a track here