Mutika # 13

This weeks Mutika was shot while on assignment on the Birdsville Track , the road between Bedourie and Birdsville was flooded so we had to make a 200 km diversion around Lake Machattie which was the only desert lake in the district not to have had any rain.
I was on the way to Birdsville to photograph floodwaters spreading out through the sand hills as the water finds it’s way to Lake Eyre , Thanks to our host and pilot David Brook we managed to get into the air and shoot this once in a life time scene.

But the funny thing about “once in a lifetime” moments is that they can sometimes repeat on you , when I recently returned to the scene of the magic and made an entirely different picture of exactly the same spot in the middle of the Simpson Desert.

The trip back was a bit more strange because my travelling companion was insistant on not using any sort of credit or debit card, suspecting them to be a tracking device of Orwellian proportions, so we had to belt it back to Boulia before the banks closed so he could withdraw cash using his bank book, a journey of over 400km.
If anyone wants to see more of the flood waters coursing through the Channel Country on the way to Lake Eyre, just go to my web site here.

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