Taking the Eyre

摘要

IT'S BOOM TIME at the tiny outback settlement of William Creek along the dusty Oodnadatta Track in South Australia as news of a once-in-a-decade flooding event at nearby Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre radiates outwards like the effects of a pebble tossed intoits turbid, briny waters.It's a sunny but chilly Friday afternoon in early May and William Creek's quirky hotel has been inundated with enquiries following an ABC TV news item the night before. Footage of water surging down through Queensland's braided inland river channels, turning the red desert green in its wake before emptying into the vast dry lake bed, has pitched William Creek into the global spotlight.