Watery Wonder!

Lake Eyre from the air.

The birds arrive!

For
WATERY WEDNESDAY

You can't get a bigger water-event than this!

WATERY WONDER!

I'm sure I'll never go there; it's much too far away,

Isolated, desert-dry, remote.

And, surely, if I went there, which I know I never will,

I wouldn't think to take along a boat!

But this year Lake Eyre's flooding! It's been bone-dry for years!

Four times in a century it floods!

And suddenly the desert's come alive with living things

And the sand is sporting grass and sprouting buds.

And somehow, all the bird-life from a thousand miles away

Has heard of the phenomenon and flown

To enjoy the precious water and to breed along the banks

And to claim a part of Lake Eyre as is own.

It really is a miracle! It's here and then it's gone.

It's so wonderful and yet so very rare.

It gives hope to Australia at this time of great drought.

It's a symbol of deliverance.....Lake Eyre.

The Lake Eyre basin. 

Quote:

"As drought keeps a vice-like hold on areas of south eastern Australia, the rivers are running strong through the arid centre of the continent, transforming the region. Water is now steadily spreading across Lake Eyre, for the first time in decades. Where ever the water has flowed it has triggered enormous pasture growth and bird breeding events."




A mythological view of Australia's waters here:
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/159-rainbow-serpent.html