A lake that comes periodically

Lake Coocoran is near Lightning Ridge, only a few kilometres away. Simon took me out there yesterday to look at it. I was incredibly interested as I've never seen a lake like this before. In the ten years or so drought in recent times here it wasn't there, it was just covered in grassland and dirt, Simon saying he'd even driven across it. But as there's been a lot of rain out this way in more recent times it has come back and has now been there for about the last 3 years. Incredible to think that there was nothing there, but now is this whole big lake 5 or so k's across and 25 or so k's long. Took a lot of pictures, here's some of them:

These are walking down from the top of the hill, showing the normal sort of landscape in the foreground, and the lake in the distance.

This is down next to the lake. You used to be able to drive across it here.

 

Incredible the difference in the normal land here, and the vegetation next to the lake, as green as anything in New Zealand.

The PC has been lasting fine here. And the internet is OK, considering it's wireless. Only really notice it though when I'm uploading photos. Simon's gonna turn on the diesel generator today and we'll plug everything in to recharge it all. The PC I set to "powersaving" mode, and it's still got about an hour left of battery (20%) after all this time. Very happy with that. My phone too still has 3 bars of battery left, about half, although I've not used it much. A few texts from my daughter is about it.