A Visit to Victoria (5)

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

I bow to your knowledge of the legal borders of jurisdictions but unless there has been a severe warping of tectonic plates in the last 30 years Bool Lagoon is not in Victoria.  Although many of the denizens of the area do "look to" Melbourne rather than Adelaide.

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 23 September 2014 07:42, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

It is more than 20 years since I last visited Bool Lagoon, near Naracoorte.  Then the main boardwalk crossed a watery expanse of marsh and ended at a hide that looked out at something like a lake.  Last week the same walk crossed a dry paddock and no water (or waterbirds) could be seen from the hide.  It seems strange that while recent rains have greened paddocks, freshened watercourses and filled farm dams, the larger water bodies (like Lake George) that only fill with sustained rainfall reflect an underlying dry cycle.   However at Bool Lagoon you could still have distant views of hundreds of magpie-geese and whiskered terns, and at dusk I could just pick out a single Brolga.  At night at least 2 Aust Bitterns punctuated the frog-sound with that curious cry, somewhere between a moo and a snort.