Lake Eyre

Flooding in the Thompson, Barcoo, Diamantina, Western, Georgina, Eyre Creek and Cooper Creek. I think that is every watercourse in Queensland that feeds that way.

Agree, but..........it takes months of rain, not just a weeks flooding and this is usually from the summer monsoon rains when it is usually at its heaviest, for weeks after weeks.

Apart from local rainfall over Lake Eyre itself, there are only 2 main watercourses to enter Lake Eyre.

The Diamantina and then via the top at the Warburton Groove.

The second entry point is the lower rhs of Lake Eyre North via the Cooper.

Every watercourse in central outback then needs to converge on the Cooper and Diamantina.

Then the waiting games starts, as there are hundreds of small depressions that need to fill and then slowly continue their course to the lowest point on the Australian Mainland.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Lake Eyre fill properly, not like media reports to get people to the outback and spend big dollars on plane flights, and would love to see the Cooper over the Birdsville Track again.

Thats all I can say, but it is now down to mother nature to see if it happens again.

Stephen is right and even when water does ever reach Lake Eyre you cannot really see it from the shores. Still requires a flight to be much different to any other visit at any other time.

Here is the link to Wright's Air website with their Current Conditions Report - worth a look

This is 1974 when it was "full".
We were in an F28 Fokker. The water came all the way to the "edges" and even spilled over past them in places. We then drove a Kombi back from Alice to Adelaide in the wet.


Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome