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May 22

Queensland flood waters now flowing into Lake Eyre

The current status of the water flowing into Lake Eyre is steadily on the rise. Floodwaters from the massive amount of summer rainfall that has been dumped on large areas of Queensland and New South Wales have now hit Australia’s “inland seabed” of Lake Eyre via many river systems along the journey before finally meandering [...]

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Mar 20

Lake Eyre is filling again!

Above is another image taken by the Outback photographer Peter MacDonald or The Sentimental Bloke as he is also known. Its very coincidental that after my last blog post on the current conditions of the very wet country side in northern South Australia and Lake Eyre, he sent me his latest blog of which I [...]

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Mar 19

2012 Rains flooding Outback and Lake Eyre regions

What a deluge of rain that we have seen fall across nearly all parts of the country of late! There are many places that have received way too much rain across many areas but pastrolists in the Outback regions cannot hide the smiles as many of the station owners recorded their annual average rainfall over [...]

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Jul 13

Flying Coongie Lakes

Whilst everyone is talking up Lake Eyre, for me one of the many unknowns of the outback flooded regions is the magnificent fresh water system of the Coongie Lakes. Because of the lake’s incredible diversity, Coongie Lake’s are in fact recognised as having World Heritage standard by the CSIRO and are included on the National Heritage [...]

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Oct 01

Coongie Lakes exposed again.

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 [...]

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Sep 15

New 3 Day Lake Eyre Scenic Flight date

Due to popular demand, we have a new scheduled date for our 3 Day Lake Eyre Supreme Scenic Safari, ex Adelaide. Priced at $2990.00 per person, this all inclusive trip is a “ripper”  and we have 4 seats available for the 19th to 21st of October.(There are still 2 seats on the 8th-10th of October [...]

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Sep 07

Rainfall glorifies Lake Eyre

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 [...]

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Aug 31

Lake Eyre scenic flights available

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 [...]

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Aug 18

Lake Eyre 3 Day Supreme Scenic Safaris vacancies

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 [...]

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Aug 06

Lake Eyre, The Inland Sea at its best

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 [...]

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