January 22, at pm. Amanda says:. November 9, at am. Wazza says:. March 31, at pm. March 29, at pm. Robert Breen says:. April 13, at pm. May 2, at pm. Helen says:. April 2, at pm. April 8, at pm. Gary says:. April 9, at am. June Bevan says:. June 15, at pm. With the help of our guide to Lake Eyre, find out how and when to visit, what Lake Eyre tours to do and where to stay when you visit Lake Eyre.
For more information and to check current conditions, see the Bureau of Meteorology website. Two, in fact. Fly from Adelaide to South Australia's underground opal town, Coober Pedy , spend a couple of days exploring, then hit the skies for a tour over Lake Eyre with. If you're an avid four-wheel-driver, fly from Adelaide to Coober Pedy , hire a car, then drive approximately two hours to William Creek for a Wrightsair tour.
The drive to Willam Creek will take you across the gigantic Anna Creek Station: the world's largest cattle station, bigger than Israel! See our Flinders Ranges and Outback driving safety tips and make sure you prepare.
One of the most popular not to mention jaw-dropping ways to experience this natural wonder is on a Lake Eyre Tour. Choose from a range of specialised Lake Eyre tour guides to view Lake Eyre from the air or from the ground.
Located kilometres north-east of Adelaide , it was formed approximately million years ago and is the lowest point below sea level on the Australian continent. When it floods, waterbirds descend in their thousands, fish converge in channels and wildflowers blanket floodplains. However, the best way to appreciate the expansive terrain is by air. Helicopter and airplane tours are a popular and affordable option for anyone wanting to enjoy a unique view of this beautiful location.
In fact, there are many tour options for travelers wanting to explore the area by air, particularly when the lake is flooded and full of vegetation. Regardless of whether Lake Eyre is experiencing a rainy season or not, a scenic tour over its unique terrain can be a transformative experience. On our first light plane flight we were able to just relax and enjoy, knowing you were experienced and capable in your job as pilot.
The whole experience was amazing. The colours and design shapes from the air had me glued to the window. No photo can capture it. The outback adventure tour offered by Kirkhope exceeded all our expectations and our only regret was that it was over too soon. But, given enough freshwater, an explosion of life is triggered. During these large and medium floods, the lake takes off biologically.
Warm water and food provide ideal conditions for millions of invertebrates to proliferate and soon the fish and waterbirds arrive. Freshwater invertebrates hatch from sediment or are transported by floodwaters and increase exponentially, within days and weeks. With all this food, fish build up in extraordinary numbers; after the large floods of the s, an estimated forty million dead fish lay in contours around the edge of Lake Eyre.
Even in moderate floods, Lake Eyre can support large concentrations of waterbirds. For example, in the flood of Lake Eyre, there were more than half a million waterbirds, of which more than , were migratory shorebirds where Cooper Creek flowed into a relatively small part of Lake Eyre. During large floods, breeding colonies of Australian pelicans , Silver gulls and Banded stilts nest on the islands in extravagant numbers. In , a hundred thousand pelicans raised an estimated ninety thousand chicks.
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