Selamat Sore dan Selamat Kerja Sweet Tak,
Hi evrybudy.
Bon serieux maintenant on est pas la pour rigoler
Once, Lake Eyre was Lake Dieri
Just 35 000 years ago, Lake Dieri was about three times more extensive than today’s Lake Eyre, and averaged at least 17 meters in depth. Conditions were much moister then, lush vegetation surrounded it, among inhabitants of the environment was the herbivorous largest marsupial ever to exist, Diprotodon (size of a hippopotamus…). Then, 20 000 years ago, aridity set in : surface streams dried up and Dieri shrank in size, leaving only the various salt lakes of today - Lake Blanche, Lake Callabonna, Lake Frome, Lake Torrens … And Lake Eyre, which covers approx. 9300 square kilometers (and spreads across the horizon like a vast, desolated white plaine). It’s the lowest part of the Australian continent, having sunk to between 12 and 17 meters below sea level. Lake Eyre is divided in two parts, Lake Eyre North and smaller Lake Eyre South, joined by a narrow neck of salt called the Goyder Channel. Nearly one third of Lake Eyre is covered by a thick crust about half a meter thick, most lying in the Southern part, where it overlies a silty bed of gypsum-rich mud up to six meters deep. In the North a treacherous area known as the “slush zone” has a very thin covering of salt over liquidy mud that never dries out.
Almost nothing lives on the Lake but primitive micro-organisms and a few very tiny animals (notable are : the mud-dwelling salt-lake louse, the brine shrimp -both less than one centimeter long- and camouflaged Lake Eyre dragon lizard Amphiborulus maculorus. Plants as samphire also survive around the shoreline.
The formation of the area began some 200 million years ago when Australian landmass from Gulf of Carpentaria to over Flinders Ranges began a steady downward movement. Then about 100 million years the whole area became inundated by the sea. Some 20-30 million years later earth movements and other factors caused the sea to withdraw leaving dry land cut by several big rivers (probably flowing towards Southern coastline). One million years ago then earth tilted again, causing faulting and blocking the streams, forming a huge freshwater lake that geologists named Dieri (after Aborigenal tribe who’d lived there).
Lake Eyre has filled with water only twice this century (20eme), 1950 and again 1974. Pelicans, waterfowl, white cacatoes emus and other birds flock to the area, kangaroos, and people with swimming gear, fishing tackle and light boats. Can you dig that !
Traditionally Lake Eyre was the territory of the Arabana, Tirari and Kujani Aborigenal tribes, etc.. etc.. Ah, Folklore, qund tu nous tiens …
Now you should see the incredible pictures that witness this. Surprenant n’est-ce pas ? Et finalement l’histoire du Dying Kangaroo Man and Sister Lizard Woman c’est in the Olgas. Alors ce sera l’objet d’une prochaine intervention. A vous Cognac-Jay, a vous les studios. Gros bizoux gypses, car les baisers sales sans accent aigu sur le E c’est seulement quand on est tres intime, et meme pas obligatoire, oh coquin de sort !
Bulan november je descend en bus et train au sud de l'ile puis Java puis Bali et ensuite je viens "danser et donner des baisers" en direct.
Selamat jalan-jalan, apres tout c'est jamais que de la balade
Le Oozy Lizy Mama