Early morning at Lake Mungo on the Birds Australia (Victoria) 2006 Easter trip. Once a productive hunting ground for some of the earliest known inhabitants of Australia, Mungo has been dry for thousands of years. The lake itself holds litte interest (apart from the Brown Songlarks we have stopped to look at); most of the variety in flora and birdlife is found in the surrounding countryside: mainly parched Belah woodland which has never really recovered from very bad overgrazing and rabbit problems in the past, and scattered sand dune mallee patches.
Apparently, the Mungo National Park rangers regularly receive phone calls from Sydney and Melbourne people asking if it’s OK to bring the jetski.