Lake Eyre

As a well know Richie would say: "Maaaarvellous".

Me too? :)

Cheers,
Peter
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Or this one, taken through the window of an F28 Fokker Friendship on the way between Adelaide and Alice Springs in 1974, the year of the BIG wet.

Cheers,
Peter
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Another brilliant photo Peter. I can't beat that but while we're showing off our photos, from 2011:

The white dots are pelicans:

Peter, a minor nitpick (for the record). The Friendship was the F-27 (later F-50) while the F-28 (later F-100) was the Fellowship.

Mmmm....maybe it was an F27?
I recall that the aircraft was only about 1/4 full and we went up to the cockpit. The pilot took it off auto pilot and sat our daughter on his lap. All went smoothly until she suddenly decided to find out what the control column actually did ........ and there was a lot of spilt coffee down the back......

Cheers,
Peter
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ive got an amazing story about those pelicans in your photo
- I cant remember the year as i was young but it was about 1979?

but lake eyre was well and truly drying up and those pelicans were heading to the coast

they descended absalutly en masse onto our little town wudinna as it has 2 big ovals the town oval and school oval almost side by side
and they landed there for a rest in the most freakish natural event ive ever seen

they quickly headed off again and were all gone in about 3 days with the last straggler gone

oh whoops I see the pic with the pelicans was 2011 but same thing regardless

Haha yep my pictures are from 2011, but bloody great story nonetheless.

It never ceases to amaze me how the birds know when there is water there.

As Ron says Stuart.

Absolutely nothing like being there of course (far better in some ways, not even close in others) but the ABC Shoppe has the Lake Eyre/Kati Thanda double DVD (Lake Eyre - Australia’s Outback Wonder; Return to Lake Eyre - The Deluge) on special atm for a bee's dick under a lobster. Received it from Santa but lo and behold our newish blu-ray player has since gone on strike and will only do sound.

https://shop.abc.net.au/products/lake-eyre-collection?p=233

There could be more heavy follow-up rains of this type soon, Bob, through the Centre.
Once a pattern for the season sets up, it usually follows through for the season, or a few months at least.
Seems like the cyclones are non-existent in the West this season - they've been replaced by these big moisture-laden low pressure systems heading from the Mitchell Plateau/Kimberley region right down through the Centre to Victoria.

Cheers, Ron.

Bob,
for all the people in your area I hope you receive much more rain. I know you have had some decent falls but your area will need at least another 200mm to break even.

As you said not enough rain to start flows in the Hamilton, Burke, Mort or the Diamantina to start flows from up your way.

May your tanks overflow and your town bores stop smelling LOL. Well thats never going to change.

Certainly hope you're right, Ron.

To put an appreciable amount into the Lake, will still need the assistance of the 3 major streams, out of Qld. Did 2 trips to Barkly homestead this week, and the area around Avon/Soudan would be the wettest for some years.......a great start.

We had about 60 mm or so in Winton last week, and the Diamantina has been running, but not yet to an useful flood height.

Not sure what they've been doing in Longreach district, but they need to get their act together if Gunny's even going to see water in the Lake NEXT year. Poor buggers barely got 20 mm out of last weeks falls.

Slow,

Hey, hey, our bore water doesn't smell..........well not as bad as the old bores did. :-)

Bit of a run in the Hamilton last week, the Boulia road was closed for a few days. If we can get some of this Kimberley rain to divert down the Landsborough Highway, we'll all be laughing......and it'll be too wet for me to go to work. Bewdy!

All best for 2015, Gents,

Bob