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Weekend rain to make a further impact on Lake Eyre and the Outback

There has been more considerable widespread rain across the northern South Australia and into Queensland over the last few days which will certainly further enhance water going into Lake Eyre as well as freshening up the country side yet again. Innamincka recorded near 40mm which sees the roads still shut for a few more weeks…

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Queensland flood waters now flowing into Lake Eyre

The current status of the water flowing into Lake Eyre is steadily on the rise. Floodwaters from the massive amount of summer rainfall that has been dumped on large areas of Queensland and New South Wales have now hit Australia’s “inland seabed” of Lake Eyre via many river systems along the journey before finally meandering…

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2012 Rains flooding Outback and Lake Eyre regions

What a deluge of rain that we have seen fall across nearly all parts of the country of late! There are many places that have received way too much rain across many areas but pastrolists in the Outback regions cannot hide the smiles as many of the station owners recorded their annual average rainfall over…

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Leigh Creek coal train derailment images

Most would’ve heard in the news during the week of the coal train derailment, just west of the Flinders Ranges and around 150km from Pt. Augusta where the train was taking the coal to the power station there. With the train fully laden of coal mined from Leigh Creek and travelling at 80km/hr, the 3…

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Coongie Lakes exposed again.

Here’s a close up image of part of the Coongie Lakes at sundown. Taken by The Sentimental Bloke, Peter MacDonald, this region of far north eastern part of SA is the highlight of all flooded areas. Fuelled from rain and the mass of rainfall surging out of the Cooper Creek, we can showcase this National…

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Rainfall glorifies Lake Eyre

Its amazing how a decent rainfall event can do to the country side. In this case, the rain event has lasted pretty much all year and really has transformed the whole outback. With the weekend just gone, widespread rain across much of Australia and South Australia’s Lake Eyre region means that we will all be…

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