Chaffey Dam

Click & steal a 305kb snapshot of Chaffey Dam

For those that have only just found my SnapShots blog there is a series of photos of my holiday with my husband in New South Wales of Australia. If you click on the 'NSW holiday' at the base of this blog entry you will see all my post about this holiday.

Chaffey Dam was a pleasant place to visit when we left the Tamworth caravan park to do a day of touring around.

The purpose of this dam is for regulation of the natural flow of the Peel River to meet irrigation, stock and domestic requirements in the Peel River Valley. This dam also supplies water to Tamworth.

Some technical details:
Storage Capacity - 62,000 megalitres
Max. water depth - 30 metres
Max width of base - 195 metres
Length of crest - 430 metres
Height - 54 metres
Area submerged - 600 hectares
Catchment area - 42,000 hectares

This was not the largest dam that we saw but do feel the surrounding areas were the most beautiful. There will be another follow up photos so look out for that one.

After a full day on the road and feeling very pleasantly tired that glass of red wine was most enjoyable when we arrived back at the Tamworth caravan park.


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Pink or is that purple no maybe a blue flower

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This snapshot was taken while on holidays in New South Wales. I have no idea what this flower is called and it was the most beautiful dense tall shrub that I have seen with masses of flowers over it.

These tall shrub/small trees were scattered about around homes over towards the Eastern Coast.

D0es anyone know the name of this shrub? I have no idea if it is native to Australia or not.

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Old Cow Shed

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This snapshot was taken back in January 2007 on the family farm. The building was used for sheltering cattle that are no longer a part of our farm for a large number of years now.

As you can see the old building has decayed badly and very little of the straw roof remaining. Malcolm did recycle some of the stones from the fallout for our garden, which is nice because I feel that I have some of the farm history incorporated into my garden.

The low golden sunlight on the wall was something that always caught my eye when walking in the evening and thought to myself; hey why not share it with you all!

One last little thing that you maybe interested in, I was tagged to tell stories about myself. If you would like to know more just head over to my other blog and read this post. Cheers!

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Butterfly on Yellow Daisy 'two'

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A different angle of a butterfly on a yellow daisy as promised in yesterdays post.






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Butterfly on Yellow Daisy

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Not owning a macro lens for my DSLR D80 Camera I have to make do with the lenses that I have. This will be remedied when I have the cash to spare…. It will be awhile yet!

This image was cut from a poster size snapshot and all things considered it turn out reasonably good. These butterflies are small with a huge volume flying around my head when trying to capture one that would stay still long enough. When the light caught the varied blue and purple on their body, it actually glowed as if iridescent. A great compliment to the more warm dusty colour of their wings.

I have another of these to post tomorrow from a different angle. It will also show that the amount of colour does vary on these little butterflies. Maybe that is due to their age or perhaps the gender?

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