Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre
Going to lake Eyre was the main reason we headed west instead of up the Queensland Coast, so it really felt like an achievement to walk out on the salty mud to where it started getting sticky. This was at Halligan's Bay about 67km east of William Creek. The kids kept going out past the frames of small fish, grasshoppers and mice to the edge of the water – maybe one kilometre from shore. I was content to watch them dwindle until they were just specks in the distance. They returned covered in grey mud to above their knees. There was no water apart from what we brought with us so the clean up was of necessity.

From Lake Eyre

We had planned to stay a few days at lake Eyre but the campsite really was fairly desolate – just a flattish sandy turnaround space behind the fore-dune and no fires permitted to avoid leaving scars. Still it is a very special place and we were glad we went. The approaches are also quite interesting. The section just before the lake shore is something like a moonscape. It also held a surprising number of birds.
New Birds (Lake Eyre)– sea gulls, red capped plover, orange chat
(On the way out) - , brown falcon, black fronted plover, red necked avocet, singing honeyeater, pallid cuckoo, crested wedgebill, black faced wood-swallow, black winged stilt, white breasted wood swallow