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Largest ever Banded Stilts colony on Lake Torrens

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…

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Goyders Lagoon like never before!

Goyders 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…

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Goyders Lagoon turns lush green

Goyder 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…

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