Lake Eyre flood

Well the woman might enjoy watching Jamie rolling around in the mud as the depth will be that shallow I have my doubts he'll float a boat anywhere bar in the Warburton (dropped in by helicopter.)
When the lake was last half full with water visable from Haligans bay we attemted to enter the lake via the Warburton River & got no more than a KM before it was only knee deep. There's not even a 1/4 of that amount in the Lake at the moment so I doubt there will be too much sailing going on this weekend. In fact with the relatively little incoming flow it may barely be visable from the bank anywhere this year. I think alot are jumping the gun heading up to see the water with all the innacurate media reports going around. Satalite photo's show the water has almost 40km to go to get to haligans bay with over 500 square km's of area to cover!
Cheers Craig...

You are shooting the messenger,i am only relaying it.So i lay F@#%$ shot down again.
You have obviously been out out there as i have not & i dont think Google Earth would be showing the depth either so you may shoot me again.:)

Sorry Rob, there was no intention to shoot the messeger rather having a shot at the poor media reports ("Lake Eyre to fill") & now this stunt to sail on the Lake when the water is clearly no where near the banks. Will indeed be interesting to see how they get the boat to the water.
Google is useless for looking at the water as they use old photos but the daily sat photos on the Lake Eyre Yacht club certainly shows it's progress down the Warburton Groove which from people I've spoken to say is about a metre deep, less in places.
Cheers Craig.............

Sailing craft from the LEYC -thats Lake Eyre Yacht Club- have been on the Warburton and an item about this will be featured on the "Sunday "program on Ch 7 at 6.30pm either on Sunday the 22 or 29th of March. How much water will be visible from ABC Point at Halligans bay is a moot point. Stay tuned to the link in the reply above to watch the water flowing in ...... G.H.

For Lake Eyre Yacht Club see this link

PeterD

Oh good, see you soon then!

Hi Ruth

I need a few more participants to make the 4 Corners trip a goer, but hanging in there hoping we will get a few more come along. it will be a good chance to see a bit of water. All going well, I will be in Birdsville twice this year. Once around 15 May then 9/10 June. See you soon I hope. Plenty of water there?