Day 7 Around Lake Maraboon

Today the blue skies deserted us and it has rained on and off all day. Had a look at the facilities at Lake Maraboon and the Fairbairn Dam.  Would be great on a fine day.  The lake is famous for red claw (freshwater crayfish) and most people in the caravan park have "tinnies" from which to fish for the red claw. They catch them in nets.  A group next to us was taking "about a thousand home to their families".  Birdlife aplenty here with a couple of examples attached.  The apostle birds, so named because they usually associate in groups of twelve, are noisy.  They are also known as grey jumpers.  The lorikeets are like they are anywhere else, cheeky and noisy.  Lake Maraboon is only at about 57% capacity, mostly because they let too much water out when they were expecting heavy rain in the headwaters of the Nogoa R, which feeds the dam.  The "flood" never came.

130414 Red claw crayfish

130414 Bridge over the spillway of Fairbairn Dam

130414 Fairbairn Dam holding back Lake Maraboon

130414 Apostle birds - outside our caravan door

130414 Lorikeets showing no fear - at the van park