Wonderland Billabong #2, Victoria, Australia

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The above photograph was captured a little more than one year after this photograph. Because there was considerably more water flowing in Stony Creek, the foreground rocks and small cascade below the water pool in the previous image were covered with flowing water. The large rocks sitting in the pool attracted my attention since I first discovered this place, and the additional water in the cascade below it was not photogenic. Those circumstances resulted in the composition above.

This water pool shown here is held in a depression on a terrace in the course of Stony Creek. Because the bottom of the terrace is lower than the water outlet, it forms a pool that remains even when there is no water flowing.

A billabong (/ˈbɪləbɒŋ/ BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is most likely derived from the Wiradjuri language of southern New South Wales, which "describes a pond or pool of water that is left behind when a river alters course or after floodwaters recede". It is often an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek, but other types of small lakes, ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs.