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Rich took this great picture of Lake George filling up on his phone and sent it in.
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UPDATE 06/03/12 10:40: Ben_Dover has sent in this pano:
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Fill Fill Fill!!!
I reckon it’ll be full by the end of the month.
I don’t recognise the landscape…
Which vantage point is that?
Jivrashia said :
If those are the windmills visible through the mist on the left, then it’s from the Federal Hwy, on the Collector end.
Great pics, thank you both. We’ve been wondering how Lake George is looking.
EvanJames said :
Looks a bit higher up to me, probably on Marked Tree Road. There’s some great vantage points up there. It is dirt/gravel but I’ve managed to negotiate it a few times in my nippy hatchback on low profile tyres. And if you start at the northern end (ie. roughly where that pic was taken) and keep going you end up in Gundaroo so you can enjoy a meal at Grazing before going back to Canberra.
Yeah, when I had another look I realised the Fed. must be underneath the photographer’s spot. Possibly up on the winery, or as you say, Marked Tree Rd.
It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!
If only they would dig the bugger down another 100m and fill it with Cod, trout and Yellowbelly, it would make a great tourist attraction!
Captain RAAF said :
If you can source a few nukes we can give it a whirl……..
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom/
Captain RAAF said :
I’ve heard rumours of the lake back in the day and have always wanted to see it flooded.
I’ve heard rumours that Lake George is connected through subterranean channels with some lake in China. Anyone got any pics of the Chinese lake, presumably it’s drying up right about now?
yellowsnow said :
I am sure the Greens have got one.
yellowsnow said :
No, no, no!
It’s a lake in New Zealand
Captain RAAF said :
I think your times may be a little off…
andym said :
Let’s limit the fish stocking to native varieties please. No trout.
colourful sydney racing identity said :
it was bone dry in 2002 – http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386313869.html
Thumper said :
Correct.
It’s Lake Wakatipu next to Queenstown in the southern island, which has dried up.
I have my sauce, made from 100% cow manure.
When I was a kid, Lake George being mostly full was its normal state, and we got excited when the levels went down. Now it’s the reverse. I think the farmer has got used to having much bigger paddocks than he should have.
EvanJames said :
And his sheep will have to learn how to swim again…
colourful sydney racing identity said :
Didn’t take long for it to empty, though.
I can’t remember it lapping the edges of the road in 2000, but I do remember it was up there not long before they started duplication of the Fed Hwy, which was completed in time for the Olympic Games in Sydney.
At the time I wondered how well the drainage systems would cope and would the road ever get flooded. Ha, that has so far proved to be a pointless thought.
Thumper said :
I thought it was a lake in South America?
Thumper said :
I’m pretty sure it revolves around the Rand Corporation and its conspiracy, in league with both the saucer people and the reverse vampires, to steal our water supply.
It was caused by a fault line diverting a river way back. As my geography lessons come to mind. Possible oil finds there to depends on sediment depth. Age of the deposits are not to critical depth and source is. So imagine a nice big Jack up rig sitting there.
Holden Caulfield said :
We had a very strong La Nina in 1998, probably the wettest year until 2011 (I remember it as wetter, actually). 2000 was an excellent snow year but I don’t know if that translated to rainfall away from the alps.
Skidbladnir said :
We’re through the looking glass here, people!
You forget Canberra’s strong reptoid contingent
JessP said :
It’s a lake in Africa, sillies. Hence the occasional appearance of zebra.
johnboy said :
Yes, interesting.
Does Canberra have a greater percentage of reptoids per 1000 head of population?
I’m guessing yes.
poetix said :
Good point…
Thumper said :
No. Tasmania’s rate per head is higher.