While eating breakfast a chopper flew over my house, but it kept getting louder & louder… So I went out to investigate and it was scoping out a landing spot… Then flew away and came back..

That Norfolk Pine is right in front of my house…
Excellent skills by the pilot – there wasn’t much wind but a few gusts came through & you could see the heli react. A neighbour shared a video from where they were unloading, and amazing to see the pilot manoeuvre the load into position, before landing it. The sound is so impressive – when it first flew over it shook my house!

The work they are doing is flood mitigation. There is a stream that runs down through the Bush Reserve which is usually a trickle. But in heavy rain it turns into a torrent as the catchment area is quite large and thats the only route for water. Twice in the past it has flooded, and downstream has flooded low lying houses. So they are first building three large debris nets, and then are rebuilding the path the stream follows, so it can cope without causing so much damage.