Tag: Menindee Lakes

Lesley and I visited Menindee Lakes in outback NSW, Australia, on our recent photography trip. Here is an album of images, mostly dead trees with a few wildflowers thrown in.
Claire has made some comments, below, and has kindly sent this great macro shot of a bee foraging on the Patterson’s Curse, near her home.
Hope you [...]

With flood waters flowing down the Darling River from Queensland, Lake Pamamaroo is filling and the water is flowing on through Copi Hollow to Lake Menindee and Lake Cawndilla.
Black box trees of Lake Pamamaroo, killed by the water levels of the enhanced capacity of these natural lakes, make for a stark landscape image in the [...]

Lake Menindee is part of the Menindee Lakes system in western New South Wales, (NSW). The lake is accessed fairly easily from the dirt roads that follow large distances of the lake’s perimeter.
Driving a few kilometres out along the road toward Kinchega National Park, we pulled up on top of the sand dune that borders [...]

Pamamaroo Lake Sunrise
The sun rose over Pamamaroo Lake, part of the Menindee Lakes, as I guess it does every morning.
The air was clear and still, the stars having given way to the brilliance of a colourful dawn and the cresent moon, still quite visible, was an integral element of the landscape.
Lake Pamamaroo has been dry [...]

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 [...]

Late afternoon at Pamamaroo Lake put the sun low in the western sky with a great light on the dead trees, river redgums, of the dry lake bed.
The outer limits of the lake were once populated by thriving river redgums, perpetuated by the natural cycle of flood and dry, but now they’re all dead, the [...]

Wilcannia
Having enquired of a fellow traveler, we found Wilcannia to be as said: very few white fellas in the main street and a significant area of the town boarded up, the glass being smashed.