Wednesday Walk - Walking Along a little Stream Flowing Through the Forest.

This post is for the #wednesdaywalk challenge and the #makemesmile challenge collaboration. This collaboration initially took place once a month, but due to its popularity, @tattoodjay (of the #wednesdaywalk) and @elizacheng (of #makemesmile) decided to make it a weekly thing.

If you want to know more about the rules, visit this week's post by @tattoodjay where you will find all the rules at the bottom of his post after you've enjoyed his beautiful photos from his walk.

The weekend before last, we've had some light rain, but nothing serious. We still got some time to go out for a walk and I was able to get some photos for my #wednesdaywalk post of last week.

But this last weekend was another story again.

You'll remember that I have done some posts mentioning the floods we had last month. There were some posts from other South African community members too, also noting the same.

Well, with those floods still fresh in our memories and ongoing attempts to repair the damage to infrastructure, roads, etc., it seems that the challenges are not over yet.

Many areas are still battling with power outages and no water, as can also be seen when you look at this comment by @joanstewart on a post of mine.

Last week, we were without electricity on Thursday and Friday and I couldn't get my posts published as planned.

Then, last weekend, it started raining again and it was more flooding and mudslides. It started raining on Friday evening and the first time it stopped raining was on Sunday (late morning).

But on a lighter note...no, my post is not all about doom and gloom...lol. No, I can actually share some more photos today of our walk in the Springside Nature Reserve.

These were photos I planned on sharing last week Thursday, but I suppose today is as good as any other day...and today I can share them in our #wednesdaywalk and #makemesmile collaboration.

In last week's post, I shared the trail where we walked in the reserve.

Today I would like to share some photos, focusing more on the little stream that we walked along. There was one area in particular, that I really found beautiful.

In this first photo, you can see the stream flowing gently through the forest.

Just a little further downstream, we found this scene, where the water is crystal clear.

With my next photo, I didn't really get the effect I was looking for...

I wanted to zoom in somewhat, focusing on the clear water flowing over the hard, stony surface. It didn't come out the way I saw it in my mind, but I'll share it anyway...

Looking at the same spot, just from a different angle.

Zooming in a bit...

Just a little bit upstream, the water is once again calmy running down through the forest, but the evidence is clear that just a month ago, the water came down forcefully along this route...

It wasn't always carved out this deep...

And a little closer look at the depth. I would estimate the width at about 2 meters, at some places going up to about 3 meters. With the depth that is visible here, one can imagine the force of the water that must have been coming through here...

And that's it for today, folks!

Thank you for reading my post! I do appreciate it!