Water into Lake Eyre? How much?

Good link Willem, thanks for that.

Cheers,
Peter

the cooper creek has a bit of flow in it at the moment, might help a bit. cheers

The local rain that has fallen in the area is most likely to have all evaperated by the time the Water arrives from Birdsville down the Warburton. For the Lake to fill, the Macumba or the Cooper creek also needs to flow & from what I've read this is yet to happen in any amount. One more major rain event in the North Central area should see at least a partial fill viewable from the bank. Cross the fingers.
Cheers Craig.............

Peter
Before any rain from ex Cyclone Charlotte had a slight chance of reaching Lake Eyre it has to fall within the area shown on this map.

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Heavens to Murgatroyd, Bob - how's a girl supposed to understand that!

Good on you Ruth, that was the sort of reply I was seeking.

Just shows you don't need a No.5 shovel to spread the B/S around!!!

River has dropped here the last 2 days, albeit quite slowly, so will be doing a lot of good while it holds up.

Great to see water bird numbers very slowly increasing. Big mob of something flew up the outside channel this arvo, but couldn't distinguish whether they were cormorants or not.

Sandflies are so big this year they need to radio in for landing instructions........I kid you not.

Talk to you later,

Bob.

BIrdsville received only 53 mm - the flood that was here was caused by local rain falling on the surrounding property to the north. The level has dropped and we can again see the road out of town and can cross the Diamantina - at the moment. Hopefully long enough for a supply truck from Adelaide to come in - we haven't had fresh anything (milk, f & v) since 19 December. If no rain on the Birdsvlle Track then the truck can still get close to Birdsville - about the racetrack and the boats will do the rest! The main flood water, as pointed out by Bob and Crackles above, is still aways up the River. We are expecting two more rises in Birdsville - both of which will cut us off again from the south and east.
The Georgina (which is Eyre Creek at Bedourie) is rising and both Bedourie and Glengyle Station will probably have water over their bridges in the next day or so. KIng Creek (just south of Bedourie) is already very much in flood and the road north is cut.
As crackles pointed out, to put flood waters into Lake Eyre takes an enormous amount of water. In 2000 if there hadn't been big rains on the western/north western side of Lake Eyre which caused big runs in the Macumba and Neale Rivers then our Diamantina River water alone wouldn't have been enough on its own. Remember also, that the Cooper has a very long way to go to get into Lake Eyre and in 2000 it only got as far as 2 klms to the east of the Birdsville Track.
All the waterholes are full now and more rain to the north or even locally will make a big difference to how much water can flow in through the Warburton Groove - it also has a long way traverse through Goyder's Lagoon first.
The river to watch is the Georgina/Eyre Creek - this will make things very interesting when it spills down through the northern part of the Desert - through Muncoonie Lakes and further south. Could be a beautiful season out there. Again, hard to predict where it will end or how long it will take. Everyone is safe and healthy and floods here are great fun - until the water starts to go down and the sandflies come out. Everything is very green - even the surrounding sandhills are covered in vegetation.

And if everyone takes notice of Ruth, and comes out here this year, they might see scenes like this:

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Diamantina River sunset

Maybe later in the year, there'll be a bit more ground cover than this photo.

Bob, lovely photo - you will miss this view come tomorrow!

Very true, Ruth.

The view across Magpie Gully, and the railway line, just won't have the same appeal, eh.

Future sunsets will have a foreground of houses, power lines & other bits of "civilisation". "Sighs".........with emotion.

Not to worry, it's a new beginning Ruth.

See ya,
Bob.