Mud Flats on Pamamaroo Lake
by Lexa Harpell
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Mud Flats on Pamamaroo Lake
Artist
Lexa Harpell
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Photograph - Photographs
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Mud Flats of Pamamaroo Lake by Lexa Harpell.
The joy of travelling 'on the road' is that you get to stop and stay at out of the way places.
Dreading the next leg - 400kms of heavily corrugated roads to my next destination - with an average speed of 20kms/hr.
This 20km detour was well worth a welcome few days to explore the dried out lakes near Menindee, NSW.
The sunset was spectacular on the first night with a purple haze sky. Sitting on the thick sticky mud on the edge of the lake waiting for the sun to drop below the horizon was not ideal - but if you want the shots, you do what you have to!
The next day I walked across the mud flats for some sunrise shots and exploring new vistas. The closer I walked to the water, the stickier and deeper the mud became.
By the time I shot this scene, I was calf deep in thcik, sticky mud and bootless. They came off 50 mtrs back when I wrenched my legs out of the mud and the boots remained buried. I did retrieve them on the way back and gave them - any myself a good soak and hose down.
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As of this date, New South Wales and parts of Queensland has been officially declared to be in a severe drought.
Rivers and lakes water levels are extremely low, some have dried up completely.
Yet there is always beauty to be found in these extreme, harsh times.
One of them is on Pamamaroo Lake, near Menindee in New South Wales.
Apparently, the lake is at 10% water capacity (so I was told). Exposing the thousands of downed trees that are normally more submerged.
The vivid sunset over the lake expressed the tree skeletons so beautifully as stark silhouettes.
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February 14th, 2020
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