Sensuous Morning: Imbil Lagoon, Australia
As the land breeze drifts down the Yabba Valley in winter, it carries the colder air from the high country. Once it reaches the town of Imbil and the wider alluvial plains, the breeze eases and the fogs form and smother the landscape, in this case, Imbil Island.
Yabba Creek rises on a plateau from which it descends rapidly by way of a major waterfall and cascades to flow in a confined valley before reaching open country, and as it does its meanders become wide sweeps, over geological time these meanders have wide alluvial pockets, that in flood time are scarred by flood channels and scours, while receiving deposits of mud and sand as the floods retreat. This photographed lagoon is permanent, having been scoured below the normal watertable. It is a natural waterhole for grazing cattle and surveyors created a boundary between two properties, hence the fence that crosses the lagoon.
Early winter mornings are frequently foggy, the fog being delivered by the landbreeze that descends from the plateau and flows down the valley until the wide open flats are reached.
Farmers who have owned this fertile farmland either side of the boundary fence include Myers, Kerridge, Stubbins, Hooper, George & Pauline Price, Blair & Kaili Price, Young, Stubbins and Rozynski. Before them in the 19th Century this was part of "Imbil Station" owned by Lawless, then Elworthy and Mellor families.
Sensuous Morning: Imbil Lagoon, Australia
As the land breeze drifts down the Yabba Valley in winter, it carries the colder air from the high country. Once it reaches the town of Imbil and the wider alluvial plains, the breeze eases and the fogs form and smother the landscape, in this case, Imbil Island.
Yabba Creek rises on a plateau from which it descends rapidly by way of a major waterfall and cascades to flow in a confined valley before reaching open country, and as it does its meanders become wide sweeps, over geological time these meanders have wide alluvial pockets, that in flood time are scarred by flood channels and scours, while receiving deposits of mud and sand as the floods retreat. This photographed lagoon is permanent, having been scoured below the normal watertable. It is a natural waterhole for grazing cattle and surveyors created a boundary between two properties, hence the fence that crosses the lagoon.
Early winter mornings are frequently foggy, the fog being delivered by the landbreeze that descends from the plateau and flows down the valley until the wide open flats are reached.
Farmers who have owned this fertile farmland either side of the boundary fence include Myers, Kerridge, Stubbins, Hooper, George & Pauline Price, Blair & Kaili Price, Young, Stubbins and Rozynski. Before them in the 19th Century this was part of "Imbil Station" owned by Lawless, then Elworthy and Mellor families.