FROSAT Newsletter June 2009
May 21, 2009 by Tim
Filed under: What's News
Planes and busloads of tourists are flocking to the far north of South Australia to see the flooding waters fill Lake Eyre. Floodwaters from Queensland hit the lake mid March and since then the lake’s been slowly filling. It’s been so popular the tiny outback town of Marree is booked out until mid-September. Local tourism pilot Trevor Wright says people are even making major detours to see this historic event. “I was talking to four tourists who said, ‘look we were going to Cape York but we heard there was water in Lake Eyre so we decided to do a slight detour’,” he says. “So they decided to come up, have a look at Lake Eyre with water in it and then they’re shooting up from there, up the Stuart Highway through Coober Pedy into Ayers Rock, Alice Springs and then up through Mt Isa and then up the top to Cape York.”
Source: ABC Rural Radio 16/4/09
The FROSAT Newsletter June 2009 by Tim, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
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