Lake Eyre

Any photos you'd care to share Phil?

" having thrown up in the plane over Lake Eyre"
Well, that's another one off the Bucket List then Phil.
Dave.

I was a bit slow. Didn't think to take a selfie while throwing up in the bucket! At least I thought to move the microphone away from my mouth (first rule of flying!) but it was in front of my eyes and picked up all the noises I was making and transmitted them to everyone on the plane :-)

Probably could dig up a few slides from years gone by. But below is some of whats on my computer.
Got one of the Corolla driving on Lake Eyre South in 1977, but I'd have to get the slide scanner out to do photos of the water from Level Post Bay in 1987/88 in the FJ55. Had a magical trip in 2000 in a Subaru - where you could get to a deep waters edge from Babbage Peninsula on Muloorina Station (across the causeway) - seeing all the shrimp and pelicans from the waters edge was fantastic. Went up again when the Cooper was flooded in 2011 (thats when we did that flight from William Creek). Its nice to see water in the Lake, but this year I'll give it a miss. No water going in so far from anywhere except the Warburton - that's just one of 5 rivers so not a flood. Anyway, a few photos from the past:

I took a flight from William Ck in early October 2016 and saw a reasonable amount of water in the Belt Bay area, most from local runoff due to late autumn rain. Although there was still over a metre of water in Belt Bay the wind was very strong from the west and it had blown the water offshore and it could not be seen from shore. The wind was so strong in fact, the pilot was boasting over the radio that he had a ground speed of over 400 kph, at William Ck we had to pitch our tent in the camp kitchen to stop it being blown away. We did not see any bird life as we were told they had left. The Lake Eyre Yacht club are predicting more than a metre of water in Belt Bay by April-May, we are revisiting the area just at this time so we have our fingers crossed.

As to the "wildlife", we have been to Lake Eyre twice, once empty and once nearly full.

On both occasions, our total wildlife count was one seagull. I don't know if it was the same one...

2010, Lake full:

2017, Lake empty:

Cheers
Numb Thumbs ;)

PS I'll be there in mid May - hopefully the same seagull will be there again!