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It's like they were just hanging around for us...

They're showing off now...

It's been so long since we've been trying to get these on video...until today!

We never know when we'll get another chance... They're very quick and difficult to get on video.

From the middle...

Ye olde river crossing...

It's a glorious sunny Sunday morning in Kuranda and as CleanCo begin work on the 'coffer dam' at the weir tomorrow morning we thought we'd take some final videos of the Barron before the water level once again begins to rise...

Like the Ulysses Butterflies, these Sunbirds are amazingly quick and difficult to get on video...it's been one of those glorious Far North Queensland winter days and everything's come out to play!

12 years 6 months living in this house and we've never had an opportunity to take as many videos of these beautiful iridescent little beings like we did today...

It's a glorious sunny day here in Kuranda and the butterflies are out in force.

Just beautiful...

Six months after Cyclone Jasper, the River Walk has been re-opened (albeit not finished) tonnes of sand, soil and debris have been removed and the overhanging trees over the staircase have been trimmed but getting a couple of Council employees with two shovels to remove the mud/soil buildup from the stairs down to the waterfront to make these stairs safer for everyone has obviously been put in the too hard basket...

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'R' is for removal, no? One of the only trees left standing down on the Barron River waterfront after Cyclone Jasper look's like it's been marked for removal...

Looking a bit like a wasteland...

From the middle...

On a beautiful sunny Friday morning...

With the temporary weir wall about to be started by CleanCo (Monday) the river will not get much lower than it is now...or so we thought. We'll go for a look on Sunday morning before it starts to fill up again.

Looking downstream towards the weir from the exposed riverbank...

Jum Rum Creek Falls

From the increasingly exposed riverbed...