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As reported on the TV screens late last week, it is now official that in South Australia’s Lake Torrens, there has been a colony of an estimated 150,000 native Banded Stilts that have bred more than 200,000 chicks!!!! This is something else! The long beaked wading birds have trekked from their coastal habitat of South…
Read MoreIt’s almost impossible to convey just how much water is in the Coongie Lakes at the moment. It just goes on an on, almost as far as they eye can see in every direction. Hundreds of islands amid a thousand lakes. Hard to imagine this is a formidable desert most of the time and at…
Read MoreGoyders Lagoon again & the Sentimental Bloke wasn’t exaggerating when he spoke about the millions of streams going into Goyders Lagoon. The vision from the plane is unreal with endless miles of flooded plains. Aircraft is your best mode of transport here at the moment; not much chance of getting down this track, or indeed…
Read MoreGoyder Lagoon, part of the Strzelecki Desert in the far north eastern part of South Australia – a million streams, large and small that have turned a once dry desert into hundreds of square kilometres of rich green landscape. This really is quite remarkable & in this image by The Sentimental Bloke, you can actually…
Read MoreThe Warburton River just before it enters Lake Eyre which Pete MacDonald is using to illustrate a recent question that came via email about what sort of fish are in Lake Eyre? The Warburton is fresh water flowing into Lake Eyre which is very salty. So Salty that freshwater fish can’t live in it…
Read MoreA rare sight indeed. How good is this shot by the Sentimental Bloke, Pete MacDonald! In fact something that may not be repeated for another 20 years or so. The headwaters of the Cooper Creek heading for Lake Eyre in central Australia. Apart from it’s historical significance, an almost surreal situation as the waters steadily…
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