Dipper

Today's the day .......................... to recede

This picture of a dipper in the River Kent is not one of my best - but it's highly significant.

It's a bit like when they sent the dove out from Noah's Ark and it returned with a twig in its beak.  It's been quite a while since there have been any rocks above the surface of the Kent for a dipper to dip on - but there it was today going about its business as if nothing had happened.

I walked along the riverside today and I can tell you that, at its peak, the water would have been perhaps 15 feet above this rock.  There is still a lot of evidence of the destruction the flood water caused on that eventful weekend before Christmas - collapsed walls, empty houses and shops where the clear-up hasn't even started and of course, all the debris left behind.

There were a couple of men in waders doing a bit of clearing under Stramongate Bridge.  If you compare the blip I did then with the extra picture today, you can see how much the water has receded.  Don't look too closely because I think that's a dead sheep on the left!

Oh, what a lot of mess ............................