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Fish at Coongie Lakes?

  The 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…

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Coongie Lakes

LAND OF A THOUSAND LAKES And this is just one of them. The Coongie Lakes – such a contrast from Lake Eyre. Chalk and cheese – Salt Water and Fresh Water. Unfortunately the Innamincka-Coongie Lakes National Park has been closed until November which is going to hamper many people from seeing this wonderful place at…

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Lake Eyre Tours-the aircraft

This is the aircraft that you will be flying around Lake Eyre & its surrounds, taking in all all the spectacular and rare sights of the lake filling whilst on a 4 day  ground & air Lake Eyre Tour. It’s an Australian made GA8 Airvan utility transport aircraft operated by Wrights Air & it’s just the…

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Lake Eyre Scenic Tours & Safaris

With the winter season apon us, all the rage in Australian tourism is in the natural phenonaman of the country’s  biggest lake, that being Lake Eyre, filling up. The lake surface itself is a massive 9690 square kilometers ( the size of Holland!) which is normally a very hard salt crust but after early season floods in…

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