While the rain finally eased over the weekend, and the Mountains bathed in glorious sunshine, the effects of 12 wet days in a row are evident all around.
Fungi of all shapes and sizes have revelled in the conditions, popping up everywhere.
Ditto spiders, according to David Bock from the Australian Museum. He said the wet had literally flushed many, including funnel webs, from their nests.
Mt Riverview resident, Lyn Downes, found a nest of babies on the sliding window track in her laundry.
“I quite often see them in my back garden but I never expected one in the laundry,” she said.
Up in Leura, conditions have been so damp they have attracted midges or sand flies, which are usually found by the sea.
Leura resident Gillian DuPen has been “eaten alive” by midges.
“We live in south Leura, an area I wouldn't normally associate with sand fly ‘midges’ but for the last four weeks I have been been severely bitten,” she said.
Mr Bock said the midges have been blown into the Mountains by an onshore wind. They also breed in damp soil, which has been plentiful in the area.
Ms DuPen advised moving wet pot plants away from the house.
Showers are forecast to return, with Thursday looking most likely for rain.
