Today we went with Robert and Tracy, in their four wheel drive, to visit the Darling River and the Menindee Lakes Region, situated in the Kinchega National Park. It was a wonderful day. The Menindee Lakes are situated approx. 110 km's south east of Broken Hill. They consist of a chain of shallow ephemeral freshwater lakes connected to the Darling River to form a storage system. When the storage system is full it holds over three and a half times the water of Sydney Harbour and provides a haven for water birds of all kinds.We saw quite a lot of birdlife today. Pelicans, cormorants, a spoonbill and lots of other water birds and smaller finches, parrots and the like. Several explorers have passed through this area including, Burke and Wills (1860 expedition) and Charles Sturt (1844).
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