If you look up our property on a map program, scroll down just a bit and you’ll see Shear Creek. It sits in a deep ravine just past the edge of our property in a place that is too steep to get to and also has a high risk of poison oak. Most of the time the creek is empty, or at least you can’t hear any flowing water sounds when standing at the top of the ravine. When it rains, you can hear the water flow.
This weekend’s storm has done more than fill that creek. It established Camp Cougar as the headwaters.
Each of the gullies on our property has turned into a creek, some with small water falls, that are cascading down the ravine an fill Shear Creek.
A small geyser formed in one gully that appears to be water forcefully coming out of an animal hole. Let’s hope the animal got to higher ground before her home filled up.
The lower road has fairly good drainage because it used to be the old "highway" to Santa Cruz back in the horse and buggy days. Still, parts of it are flooding. Glen is admiring our newly formed Camp Courgar Lake.
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