Saturday, 12 July – Lake Wood near Elliot

This is one of our favourite free camps and because it’s so popular we made sure we arrived before lunch. After a 10Km drive from the highway along a sandy, corrugated road we found a great camp site beside the lake and opposite hundreds of pelicans. For several hours we were treated to a continuous show of about 1000 Pelicans methodically fishing the lake as well numerous kites, cormorants, egrets, spoonbills, brolgas and other birds.

Today was another birthday celebration - this time for yours truly.

Happy Birthday DJ

As usual the sunset seen from our camp spot was spectacular and our communal roast pork with salad dinner was just as good.

The next day was a rest day by the lake watching the endless procession of birds fly and paddle up and down the lake.


Flaps Down.  Good Landing

One Of The Ever Present Kites

White Egret



A Cormorant On A Mission




Cormorant Warming Up and Drying Its Wings

Oh crap.  No Reverse Thrust!

Stop! Thief!

Formation Flying

Low Level Flying

Feeding The Birds

Sunset At Lake Wood

Sunset At The Lake

Some Of The Chaos At Lake Wood