All the water which crossed the road in that river ended up in Lake Dora. So for the first time this year there are more than dry mirages on its surface.
This Punmu sunset, the last I was to see on this trip, shows the lake surface in both of its incarnations. Dry and wet. Where it is dry is around ten centimetres higher than the deepest of the wet areas. The morning after this photo was taken some pelicans had already begun harvesting the brine shrimp which begin to hatch the moment any water settles on the ground. Ducks, Herons, Egrets, Brolgas and other water birds would be arriving over the next few days. From hundreds of Kilometres away.
Three times I saw pelicans while I was in Punmu this trip. Each occasion, I was cameraless! Of course.
With no more rain the lake will be dry again within two months.
This is looking away from the store which was featured in yesterday’s image. The far end of the reflection is about five kilometres away where the small Punmu section of the lake narrows and is visually blocked by an island. Beyond the island the lake stretches forty kilometres north to south and a hundred kilometres east to west!
This photo is completely untouched by photoshop. Nature sometimes shouts louder than we need.
Filed under: nature | Tagged: brine shrimp, Lake Dora, My Photography, Punmu, sunset, water, waterbirds
That’s really beautiful, Archie!
Thank you, Litlove. It was even better in real life – those desert sunsets are absolutely “To die for”.
Beautiful! You certainly get sunsets.
It is very strange – we seem to get one every day – - -
[slinking off in embarrassment]
Wow that is beautiful.
Like your comment about Photoshop too
Thanks, P. That was the best of around 40 snaps taken over a forty minute time span.