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Voyage on the Warburton Creek
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Voyage on the Warburton Creek
Sunrise at Lake Eyre near the mouth of the flooded Warburton Creek. (All pictures by Amos Aikman)
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Voyage on the Warburton Creek
Adventurer Rex Ellis’s boat the Desert Queen is just visible sailing in what’s known as the Warburton Groove, the channel where the Warburton Creek enters.
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Commodore of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club Bob Backway with his cat, Cyan, sailing his boat named Peril in convoy with others from Rex Ellis’s Bush Safari Co.
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A convoy of boats travel down the creek.
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Voyage on the Warburton Creek
Lake Eyre is the largest salt lake in Australia.
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Voyage on the Warburton Creek
Adventurer Rex Ellis, with dog Billycan, and ‘boatie’ Don Stephens in an area known colloquially as the lower broadwaters where the creek spreads out and substantial vegetation all but disappears. In normal times it would be all dry silt and sand.
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Doug Andrews, left, and Brenton Hicks, centre, help to land a grounded boat towards the banks of the flooded creek.
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An improvised bus stop outside the Mungerannie Hotel on the Birdsville Track.
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Rex Ellis tends a camp fire on an island on the edge of the lake.
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The sun sets over Lake Eyre.
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