Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre is famous for being the saltiest lake in Australia and it only fills up every century. It is on the border of south Australia. Lake Eyre was discovered by Edward John Eyre in 1839. Edward John Eyre was a pioneer who took sheep from Sydney to Adelaide. In 1839 he explored the desert and found Lake Eyre. The lake protects an important desert wilderness. It has only been full six times since the Europeans found it. Some Australian animals drink the salty water without being harmed.
	The surface of salt crust covers 9323 square kilometers. It is placed in south Australia. Lake Eyre lies on the southwestern corner of the great artesian basin, a closed inland built about 440,150 square miles in area that is drained only by intermitted streams. Lake Eyre is nothing but salt. The water and salt has dried up into hard rock in the hot sun. The salt is hard enough to drive over. Lake Eyre fills up only after very heavy rain, after several periods of being bone dry. The water brings the breading of thousands, if not millions of pelicans, banded stilts, silver gulls and many other water birds. Pelicans can detect ultrasonic signals from lightning, which explains how they find this sea. It's possible some, perhaps many birds species can detect these infrasounds over a large distance of at least tens of kilometers.
If you have never walked up to your ankles in mud and salt crystals to the edge of Lake Eyre when it's flooded, you have seriously missed out. Before setting out your "swags" for the night, you can stroll across tide marks of dead fish and locusts towards a mirror of shallow, salty water that reflects puffs of clouds turned tangerine by the sunset. Further out, you can wade up to your ankles in water as pelicans fly overhead. These giant birds fly in from all over Australia, sensing the coming flood less than 24 hours after the first trickles of water seethes through the salt crust.
	Lake Eyre's size can only be appreciated from the air, so a scenic flight from outside the nearby William Creek Hotel is a must - swooping over camels, and the silver streaks of Um-Bum Creek and the kinaki, War Burton, and Macumba rivers as they slowly pour into a huge waterbird bath. The water turns pink, purple and blue because of the varying concentrations of minerals. Lake Eyre is one of the most popular places in south Australia. The Lake is only full of salt, and water.
Lake Eyre is the thirteenth biggest and most saltiest Lake in the world. Lake Eyre north is 144 km long and 77 km wide and is joined by the narrow goyder channeled to Lake Eyre south which is 64 km long and 24 km wide. Lake Eyre has a campsite next to Roxby Down. Aussie heritage tours offer a range of pre-planned fully accommodated, personalized tours to popular South Australian outback regions. Coober Pedey, LakeEyre, Arkaroola Wildness Sanctuary, Flinders Ranges and Wilpena Pound.