Robert's Ramblings

For a couple of years now I have been commuting along a route that takes me past the Barker Inlet Wetlands and the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre. I'd noticed the windmills, the prolific bird life and the sights and smells of a civic rubbish dump but in my head I was already at my day job.

Then the roadworks began. The speed limits dropped. I was forced to linger along the route. The more I lingered the more I saw, the more I wanted to see and capture. I've now discovered a huge network of wetlands and am only just beginning to explore them.

It's the windmills I first noticed so that's where I'll start.

Lake Lockie and its big brother, Lake Hattah, in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park of northern Victoria is little natural wonder I have only just discovered.

As the Murray River winds it's way through the arid mallee scrub of this region it spills out onto wetlands that cycle from wet to completely dry.

For much of the year there is little water here and even though just as beautiful when dry I can't help but prefer just a little water in this land locked place.