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Pelicans – Low Flying Experts

Pelicans – Low Flying Experts

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On May 21, 2012
  • 1 Comments
Lake Eyre isn’t all pinks and blues and silver salt. At the top of the main lake and the Goyder Lagoon where some water is flowing in from the Warburton River, it’s quite muddy but there is an abundance of birds. The pelicans stand out because of their numbers and the apparent ease with which […]
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It’s a Wide, Wet Country

It’s a Wide, Wet Country

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 11, 2011
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The Coongie Lakes, like Goyders Lagoon to the north – is an almost forgotten fresh water lake system hiding in the shadow of a flooded Lake Eyre. Home to over 470 plant species -52 of which are considered rare – 180 species of birds, 20 native animal species, 12 native fish and 10 frog species, […]
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Up the Creek

Up the Creek

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On December 12, 2010
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Cruisin’ down the Cooper Creek, a bunch of adventurers head for Lake Eyre. A quick wave, a chat on the radio and they’re on their own again, with a long way to travel.
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Fingers of Sand

Fingers of Sand

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On October 5, 2010
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Like giant fingers, the dunes of the Strzelecki Desert reach far into the waters of the Coongie Lakes. Canon 5D. Lens Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM. Shot at f5.6, 1/500th sec, ISO 200
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Sundown, Coongie Lakes

Sundown, Coongie Lakes

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On September 30, 2010
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Afternoon Shadows

Afternoon Shadows

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On July 28, 2010
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The contrast once again between the Coongie Lakes and the previous photo from Lake Eyre. Both are very beautiful. Lake Eyre perhaps having the edge. But to me the contrast is the abounding life in the Coongie system and the lifelessness of the Lake Eyre salt water.
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Pelican Island

Pelican Island

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On July 14, 2010
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Presumably science still hasn’t come up with the answer as to how these pelicans know when the Coongie Lakes fill with water. Since it happens only once every decade or longer it’s hard to know how ‘they’ know. Even birds in Russia get on the wing and head down for a paddle and a bit […]
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Land of a Thousand Lakes

Land of a Thousand Lakes

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On June 23, 2010
  • 1 Comments
And this is just one of them. The Coongie Lakes – such a contrast from Lake Eyre. Chalk and cheese – Salt Water and Fresh Water. Unfortunately the Innamincka-Coongie Lakes National Park has been closed until November which is going to hamper many people from seeing this wonderful place at its spectacular best. However there […]
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On The Road

On The Road

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On June 17, 2010
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Or soon to be flying in this aircraft once again. It’s an Australian made GA8 Airvan utility transport aircraft operated by Wrights Air It’s just the perfect vehicle for photographing the Coongie Lakes and Lake Eyre because I can shoot without having to go through a window.
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Results of Outback Flooding

Results of Outback Flooding

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On May 6, 2010
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The Cooper Creek west of Innamincka is flowing into the Coongie Lakes. The branch flowing off into the distance to the south is the Strzelecki Creek and this is causing problems for motorists.   The floodwaters have picked up so much of the surrounding soil, there’s not much to distinguish between the two. Travelling right […]
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Questions

Questions

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On April 29, 2010
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It is hard to visualise just how much land is covered by the floodwaters on Lake Eyre and the Coongie Lakes at the moment. it is easy to see some amazing contrasts. So much green – shades of green that in some places defy belief.   Then there’s the normal colours of the desert interspersed […]
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Oceans in the Desert Pt. 2

Oceans in the Desert Pt. 2

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On April 13, 2010
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In the Simpson and the Strzelecki Deserts there are giant sand dunes that mostly run north to south. Sometimes they are high as 60 metres (200 feet). From the air the dunes around the Coongie Lakes look like giant veins. In places the flood waters are just arriving.   In others the waters are already […]
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Oceans in the Desert and Other Strange Happenings

Oceans in the Desert and Other Strange Happenings

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On April 13, 2010
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Some things that happen Outback are few and far between. Those things are not to be missed. At the moment a once-in-a-decade (or even longer) phenomenon is occurring out there. It’s water – more than can be imagined and it’s turning harsh, dry deserts into the Garden of Eden. Over the last few days I’ve […]
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The Miracle of the Desert.

The Miracle of the Desert.

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On March 1, 2010
  • 1 Comments
Something pretty exciting is happening in the Outback of South Australia. There’s a vast inland sea building there. The most rains in a decade have drenched the Strzelecki and Simpson Deserts leaving huge areas awash with floodwaters which will fill Australia’s largest freshwater inland system, the Coongie Lakes. Most years these two deserts are beautiful […]
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