Wednesday 27 November 2013

Break on through to the other side.

I've watched this section of Highland water change over recent years. Logs and debris have caused dams creating flooding and eventually break through, leaving newly formed small ox bow lakes, of the type we learnt about in geography.  Here though, it's not  an obstruction which has caused a break through, rather the force of the flow at a tight corner. It's taken 3 years to get to this point, in past years the water over ran the bank at this point only during the wet months, scouring the surface and exposing the roots of nearby trees.  Although now the water flows over the bank throughout most of the year and soon here too an ox bow lake will form.

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