Heavy rains bring Queensland’s Channel Country to life

As far as the eye can see, the Outback has become a carpet of green, the reward for a Channel country flood. Ah, mate. Then then. That’s when, then. That’s when the magic starts. A transformed terrain teeming with life. And in this vast expanse, the best seat in the house is in the sky. You wouldn’t really believe that it was in the middle of the desert, all this water and flood plains. There’s all the dormant seedlings that lay underneath that that cracked clay pan just explode to life. So you get a whole this abundance of of colours, green greenery, wildflowers, shooting through. Travelling by road to Birdsville is equally surprising. You’ll find publican Robbo Haken stationed behind the bar at the Batuda Hotel. I’ve never noticed so many Gowanus and and and bird life and and the flowers over there that and it’s just growing everywhere. And so it’s just just something totally different from what we’re used to seeing for Sydney Cider. Bree Dixon. Wasn’t the scenery she expected. It’s a bit of mixture between red and green, which is really cool to say, just obviously to contrasting colours like that together. While it’s been a slow start to the tourist season, operators say there are squadrons of Pelicans to be seen. I’ve never seen so many Pelicans. OK, it doesn’t go hand in hand with among a theory of the Simpson Desert that we’ve got Pelicans flying over the top and you know, having a good feed on the Diamond Teena crossing that’s typically dry. Two months ago, the area behind me was flooded. But it wasn’t from heavy rain that fell here. X tropical cyclone Kirilli dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain hundreds of kilometres north of here. The flood waters then moved downstream through the Channel Country, eventually making their way to SA into Katty Tundra Lake air. The flood waters have left feed and fat cows in its wake. The catalogue amazed. They they’re happy. The thighs are annoying. I think I’ll take the flies with feed, then no feed and no Flyers. So for those planning a trip, bring a camera, because I don’t think you’re ever gonna see it quite as pretty as what it is at the moment.