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Coorong snaps « Previous | |Next »
November 11, 2006

Two different faces of the Coorong, which is part of the Murray mouth. It is a tidal estuary depending on the intermixing of salt and fresh water.

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Coorong, 2006

It is a tidal estuary that is suffering from a lack of fresh river flows coming down the River Murray.

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Coorong, 2004

The predominant medium size vegetation is salt tolerant malaleuca.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 03:36 AM | | Comments (6)
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Thats a nice pic..soothing yet not.
Interesting about the storage...another double edged sword...

Shaymus,
the Coorong is an edgy place. It takes some getting used to as it is understated. You have to live it not just pass by it. Many do and they have little appreciation of its strange beauty.

I'm not sure what you mean by the 'storage' remark.

My friend Annie Taylor, who was a pretty out-there visual artist (she did installations and things, and her obsession was the dingo in the landscape) loved the Coorong. She was a lover of the desert, but the Coorong was also special to her. She camped there, alone or with others, often.

She died in 2001. Sometimes I think it's a good thing she is't alive to see what is happening to the Coorong and to Australian wild places generally.

Helen,
yes I've camped there at Xmas, stayed in various cottages/camps driven through it and walked it.It is a special place. I keep on going back to it.

It was in regards to the previous post about the waste storage.

Shaymus,

I guess the political message that the Government wants us to heart is that it has finally got the message on global warming instead of window dressing and stalling tactics.

A critique