Flooding at the Lower Lake

Over the past week there has been a huge amount of rainfall all over the Island. Here at the park it has resulted in our Lower Lake becoming very flooded as you can see here in these photos:




The ducks and geese don’t seem to mind however!

Heavy rain causes flooding at Seaview Wildlife and other places on Isle of Wight

Many of us in the South of England and the Isle of Wight woke this morning to rain battering against our windows….. and driving became an water sport with gushing roads and overflowing storm drains forming part of the aquatic assault course on our way to work!  Of course the Park hasn’t escaped the wet – but fortunately, although we’ve sprung a few leaks, none of the livestock have been negatively affected. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: The Park’s lower lake has overflowed – consuming the pathway that normally allows easy pedestrian access.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above left: The nature reserve just below the Park usually consists of scrub and some damp marshland but today it turned into a huge mass of water - this image above shows the extension of our lower lake (in the foreground) with the flooded nature reserve behind.   Above right: Stormy seas - looking out over the flooded nature reserve to the rough grey green waves of the Solent beyond.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the wet and bedraggled Alpaca look for November 2010!  Despite having the option of a dry shed  our two lads don’t seem to mind how wet it gets!