<\/a><\/p>\nGoyder Lagoon – a real contrast to the seemingly endless salt of Lake Eyre. The tentacles of water that pervade this swamp that’s south of Birdsville just go on and on.<\/p>\n
Currently the most outstanding feature is the strong, rich, almost iridescent green colour that stretches for just about as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n
Goyder Lagoon is fed by the Diamantina River and sometimes if it fills, the overflow runs into Lake Eyre on it’s eastern shore – eventually meeting waters of the Warburton coming from the north.<\/p>\n
It’s not hard to see why the early European explorers, Edward Eyre, John Stuart, George Goyder and others were looking for an inland sea.
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Flying over it though it’s hard to imagine how they made it through such inhospitable terrain without the convenience of modern vehicles and equipment.<\/p>\n
Canon 5D Mk 1, Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM lens , f16, 1\/320 ISO 400 AWB and f16 1\/400 ISO 400, AWB. Unable to avoid refections in the first image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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