Floodwaters

Submitted: Friday, Jan 23, 2004 at 17:00
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Here is the first post on the water arriving in Birdsville. Lunchtime today the water is about one foot below the old crossing on the Diamantina - from hereon in known as the causeway. This will be a very unscientific report. One of the reasons being that the Weather Bureau does not have automatic recording below Diamantina Lakes (amazing really) , and Monkira readings are if someone is home to answer the phone. Durrrie and Roseberth are the same (and Roseberth is still in feet and inches), and there is an automatic gauge just up river from the old causeway in Birdsville. For those with your maps out - Monkira (up north on the Diamantina) was 5 metres this morning and holding. Durrie reported yesterday that the water from the Farrars Creek had arrived there (Farrars being east of the Diamantina). Still got your maps out - well there won't be any water in Browns Creek at Betoota because these has been no rain in that hilly section on Cordillo Downs.
The plan is that at 5:30 a.m. Saturday we are going with green prawns to start to catch Yellowbelly on the rising tide. The serious thinkers are saying a flood as good or better (in Birdsville) than in 2000 which was 7.3 m but maybe only a short flood, not weeks and weeks and weeks. Keep you informed.
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