Menindee Lake

Dry as a bone since 2002, about seven years, Menindee Lake was rather a disappointment but not an absolute loss from a photographer’s view point.

The lake looks to be about ten kilometres wide, more or less round, with the scrub of the far bank only just visible from the sand dune on which the caravan park is built overlooking the dry lake bed.

: Fresh water mussell shells, long since dryed out and dead, of course, dot the dry bed of Menindee Lake.

: The stump of an old wattle in the lake bed.

: Intrigueing shapes in the long submerged remains of wattle scrub in the dry bed of Menindee Lake.

: A play on form, light and shadow. A close up digital image from the dry bed of Mendindee Lake.

: Old stump protruding from the dry mud of Menindee Lake.

: All that remeins of a small wattle in the lake bed.

: Rotted and weathered stump in the dry bed of Menindee Lake.

: A little sand hill and tussock.

: A dead black box, killed by the long term, man made flooding of Memindee Lake.

: Driftwood piled up from last time Menindee Lake flooded.

: Everlasting daisy in the dry bed of Menindee Lake. These low growing everlastings were uniformly facing the setting sun.

Cattle have sunk up to their knees in the mud as the water has receeded in days long gone. The surface supports a small amount of ground cover type vegitation. Fresh water mussel shells litter the ground along with cow plops here and there.

The odd wattle has sprung up, breaking the monotony of the stark landscape.

But the feature of most interest is the stumps of the rotted off wattle scrub, submerged for many years and weathered in recent times, presenting a minature landscape element of great interest.