lake eyre

it will get water in it but my undersanding is it only fills up a few times in a century
which is a lot different to having water in it
cheers mechpete

Not sure what you are seeing over in the west, but the outback here in South Australia has water as far as the eye can see.

The Stuart Highway is still closed and will be for still quite some time. The only food drops into Coober Pedy is via the RAAF.

The flowers have already exploded in Andamooka, and one person I have been chatting with from there said that within 8 weeks, the whole area with be red with Sturt Desert Pea, and a sight to see.

There is one special lake up there that only gets water in it around every 20 years, and now it full and will now have water in if for the next 2 years or more, so we will be heading up there soon to check it out.

One place we went to just over a year ago was the historic underground Bookaloo Water Tanks.

Back then the area was swamped by summer rain and was going to take around 2 years before it was dry enough to drive to…..

Now with all this rain, I will have to wait at least 2 more years for it to dry out from our laters rain.

Here are the Bookaloo Underground Railway Water tanks last year, and would love to see the water there now.

Thanks Stephen

If you know where to look you can get news in WA about the rest of Australia! I have seen some spectacular vision online in a few places.

Most coverage of the SA floods relates to the blocking of the Trans Australia line as an awful lot of stuff comes to WA by train. Who cares about Darwin or Coober Pedy?

There are shortages of some things in supermarkets and buying limits but this time its not the doomsday mob panic buying.

Cheers

Not sure what went wrong with the photos on my reply, here is take 2 of the historic underground Bookaloo Railway water tank, from when steam trains were running the line.

I remember when you visited there Stephen.
I really admire the ingenuity behind the old infrastructure out in the bush.

Cheers

Hi Phil

I got a message from an EO member some time ago regarding access out to Lake Eyre North from Muloorina Station.

I contacted a good friend on mine who once worked up there and he then contacted Trevor, the owner of the Station.

He confirmed the track is no longer maintained by them, as the state Government are no longer paying them to grade the track.

From what I understand, where you went out from the camping area, they now have the barrier closed, as Muloorina Station does not want to have any legal issues if people go out and damage their vehicles.

http://lakeeyreyc.com/Status/latest.html#bottom
Warburton Groove is flowing.
There is 500mm in Madigan Gulf and 800mm in Belt Bay and 1.5m in Lake Eyre South.
Cheers,
peter
OKA196 motorhome

Gday Stephen,
thanks for the info I wasn't aware that the track to Level Post Bay was no longer a PAR.
Back in 2000 when there was a lot of water in the lake we were fortunate enough to get access with the owner of Muloorina to cross the causeway near Level Post Bay and to head up the Babbage Peninsula - that is an amazing place to view the lake when it is full.
Unfortunately the public viewing points for Lake Eyre are poor and the good ones are inaccessible to the general public.

Gday Peter,
Yeah I was aware that some water was starting to come down the Warburton, but I didn't think it had reached the Lake. I think what they are reporting is what they see from the satellites after local rain. When Lake Eyre fills, its the 5 big rivers that make it happen.

It would be interesting to know the complete story about the Level Post Bay PAR. National Parks website dated 5 March 2021 says closed until further notice. The EO places entry says closed due to BHP mining activity. You would think that the SA NP could come up with something better than it's closed ring this number.

Warren

Please read my post above.

The track closure has nothing to do with mining activities what so ever. Mining companies have purchased a number of stations along the Birdsville Track for one commodity only……..water.

Like I said, Trevor the owner of Muloorina Station is no longer receiving any money for track maintenance from the Government and why would he waste thousands of dollars of their money and time for the benefit of a handful of people that venture out there.

Unfortunately a number of EO Places have false and misleading information and is taken from hearsay rather than getting the true and actual facts. As for a number to call, it would then come down to a blaming game, National Parks would put the blame down to Muloorina for not maintaining the track, and if you contacted Trevor he will say why should he grade the track without any rebate from the Government.

Rather than "false and misleading", perhaps it is just out of date .....

V7 of the Traveller app will help correct this hopefully, as users will be able to edit Place entries on the fly. Updates made in remote locations will be uploaded and applied when back in mobile service.

Were they paying him to create large perfectly formed corrugations? My last visit confirms it was successful. :-)

Not out of date Frank, the track was never closed for Mining activity….period.

Before any such comment is posted , the publisher should verify their comment with the station and get true facts rather that hearsay information.

Agreed, Stephen, info should be accurate. If someone finds things other than as described and is not in a position to to a full verification, then adding a Comment to a Place describing the situation as found would be helpful. Others, be they travellers or Admins if it's brought to their attention can follow up later.

The website in the Place entry (SA NPWS) says the track is closed UFN. I will accept your research as verification and remove the reference to mining activity. I think you could have done that :-)

Cheers

Places are easy enough to fix. But what if I see errors in Treks? There's no "alert admin" button on them, at least not that I can see.

I can't see one either, Candace, nor is there an edit button in ExplorOz treks. Maybe Help Desk/Suggest an improvement (Link.)

We're off the OP's topic here. Maybe if there is more to discuss it should be on one of Michelle's V7 threads.

Cheers