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June 19th, 2011 by Lunch
Most would’ve heard in the news during the week of the coal train derailment, just west of the Flinders Ranges and around 150km from Pt. Augusta where the train was taking the coal to the power station there. With the train fully laden of coal mined from Leigh Creek and travelling at 80km/hr, the 3 kilometers of carridges certainly has caused a few headaches for the those responsible for the clean up. Luckily no-one was injured either.
These images below are from one of the best in outback photography in Peter Macdonald or commonly named, The Sentimental Bloke!
We had passengers in the air completing our final leg of our 3 Day Supreme Scenic safari, covering Lake Eyre and the Outback Loop and could see the train in the distance, but did not realise what was happening on terra firma. Thanks for the images Pete!
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October 1st, 2010 by Lunch
Here’s a close up image of part of the Coongie Lakes at sundown. Taken by The Sentimental Bloke, Peter MacDonald, this region of far north eastern part of SA is the highlight of all flooded areas. Fuelled from rain and the mass of rainfall surging out of the Cooper Creek, we can showcase this National Park from about 600 ft which is close enough to see all the wildlife blink as we fly on over!
We’re flying up here next Friday the 8th of October and also on the 19th of October as part of our 3 day Lake Eyre Supreme Scenic Safari and will be staying close by at the fantastic Cooper’s Creek Homestay in Innamincka. 2 seats vacant on both trips and looking forward to those monster yabbies again for breakfast!
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Birdsville Pub, Coober Pedy, Coongie Lakes, Cooper Creek, Goin Off Safaris, Goyders Lagoon, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre filling, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke, William Creek Hotel
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September 7th, 2010 by Lunch
Its amazing how a decent rainfall event can do to the country side. In this case, the rain event has lasted pretty much all year and really has transformed the whole outback.
With the weekend just gone, widespread rain across much of Australia and South Australia’s Lake Eyre region means that we will all be able to enjoy the outback experience a lot longer!
18 months ago, the Sentimental Bloke, Peter Macdonald took this image above of a barren Lake Eyre. Below is the start of a massive thunderstorm that caused some local floodings across many regions of the outback, which is going to enhance the region for a long while to come!
Just a friendly reminder that we have 4 seats available on our 3 Day Supreme Scenic Safari departing Adelaide on the 8th October 2010. $2990.00 all inclusive per person.Contact us for more details!
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Coober Pedy, Coongie Lakes, Cooper Creek, Dalhousie Springs, Flinders Ranges, Goin Off Safaris, Goyders Lagoon, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke, Warburton Groove, William Creek Hotel
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August 31st, 2010 by Lunch
The whole of the far north of South Australia is in it’s full glory. With consistent winter rains and thunderstorms ( and another deluge this weekend), Lake Eyre and its surrounds really is a true iconic spectacle. Still filling, thousands have emerged on the ground and many more in the sky to check the whole show out.
With all our 3 Day Supreme Scenic Safaris booked out, we have another 4 seats available for departure on October 8th-10th 2010. All inclusive at $2990.00 per person, this is a fantastic opportunity to see the Flinders Ranges, Innamincka, Birdsville, Coober Pedy, Spencer Gulf and every bit of wild life, lake, river, cattle/sheep station, wildflower and mountain in between!
Contact us asap! Below is a great Lake Eyre sunset captured by the Sentimental Bloke.
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Birdsville Pub, Coober Pedy, Coongie Lakes, Cooper Creek, Dalhousie Springs, Flinders Ranges, Goin Off Safaris, Goyders Lagoon, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre filling, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Painted Desert, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke, Warburton Groove, William Creek Hotel, Wilpena Pound
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August 18th, 2010 by Lunch
There is nothing better than cruising around the middle of Australia checking out the incredible scenes below of wild life, bird life and the massive amount of water that has ebbed, meandered and flowed through many different pathways and terrains to get to Lake Eyre. And it doesn’t get any better than doing so in the beautiful Beech 18. (see pictured above)
By popular demand, we are putting together another 3 day/2 night all inclusive scenic safari aboard the Beech 18 ex Adelaide on the 17th of September, with only 4 seats available for $2990.00 per person.
We depart from Parafield Airport out of Adelaide to Port Augusta- Wilpena Pound- Arkaroola- Innamincka- The Dig Tree- Birdsville- Goyders Lagoon-Warburton Creek- Lake Eyre North- William Creek- Oonnaddata -Dalhousie Springs- Painted Hills- Coober Pedy- Olympic Dam- Woomera- Pt.Augusta- Parafield. For full details and itinerary contact us asap.
Check out this faultless image below, by The Sentimental Bloke
. This is how stunning the views are and Peter does certainly capture the moment!
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Birdsville Pub, Coongie Lakes, Cooper Creek, Dalhousie Springs, Flinders Ranges, Goin Off Safaris, Goyders Lagoon, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke, Warburton Groove, William Creek Hotel, Wilpena Pound
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August 6th, 2010 by Lunch
Lake Eyre actually consists of two lakes, Lake Eyre North (8 430 km²) and Lake Eyre South (1 260 km²), connected by Goyder Channel which has a length of 15 km.
The Lake Eyre basin is massive! It covers more than 1 million km², or 1/6th of the continent, mainly in Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Globally, the basin is one of the largest internal drainage systems.
Below are a couple of photographs that best illustrate just how vast this inland sea really is ( Thanks again to ” The Sentimental Bloke” ).When over 4m deep the Lake is no more salty than the sea and salinity increases as the water evaporates with saturation occurring at about 500mm depth. The Lake takes on a “pink” hue when saturated due to the presence of beta-carotene pigment caused by the algae Dunaliella salina.
For our current flight specials and itinerary’s please contact us.
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Coongie Lakes, Goin Off Safaris, Goyders Lagoon, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre filling, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke
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July 19th, 2010 by Lunch
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 of mating.
All that aside, it’s even harder to figure out how they can come back to the same island in the lakes to breed.
I mean, when they left, they weren’t much more than chicks and have cruised around our coasts for ten years or so.
This is the same place that The Sentimental Bloke, Peter MacDonald photographed in 1999. Click here to look at the island back then (it’s the third photo down). It doesn’t look much like the same place. Yet they know.
Soon, if not already, the larger of the two islands will be crammed with pelicans and not long after that there will be almost as many chicks ready to start the cycle all over again. Its an amazing,unknown piece of nature that can only be described as “Pelican Business”!
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Coongie Lakes, Goin Off Safaris, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre filling, Lake Eyre scenic flights, lake Eyre Tours, Pelicans breeding on Coongie Lakes, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke
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July 13th, 2010 by Lunch
As reported on the TV screens late last week, it is now official that in South Australia’s Lake Torrens, there has been a colony of an estimated 150,000 native Banded Stilts that have bred more than 200,000 chicks!!!!
This is something else! The long beaked wading birds have trekked from their coastal habitat of South Australia’s, Coorong coastline, to breed in Lake Torrens when rain turns the salt lakes into a “shrimp brine soup”!
Up until recently, the total population of these “outback flamingos” was thought to be only 200-300,000 in the world, so this is a significant event. Full report. The Sentimental Bloke, Peter Macdonald also posted an excellent blog on this breeding event back at the end of May, which make good reading and also some great photos before the lake filled.
Our new 3 day Flinders Ranges/Lake Eyre Scenic Tours, takes you directly over Lake Torrens and you can see this colony plus a lot, lot more throughout your day in the air on this trip. For more information, please contact us.
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Posted by Lunch Tags: Flinders Ranges, Goin Off Safaris, Lake Eyre, Lake Eyre filling, Lake Eyre scenic flights, Lake Torrens, Largest ever Banded Stilts colony, Peter MacDonald, The Sentimental Bloke
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July 13th, 2010 by Lunch
It’s almost impossible to convey just how much water is in the Coongie Lakes at the moment.
It just goes on an on, almost as far as they eye can see in every direction. Hundreds of islands amid a thousand lakes.
Hard to imagine this is a formidable desert most of the time and at the time of this post, we have had confirmation that Lake Eyre is covered with water! Go to Lake Eyre tours for more info. Thanks again to The Sentimental Bloke for the stunning images.
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