The usually arid Lake Eyre in South Australia sometimes fills with rainwater and attracts bird life. Photo / Paul Estcourt
Rain in North Queensland has been so heavy it has caused widespread flooding and ruined crops, but it could also cause an oasis in the outback.
Lake Eyre is a massive salt lake in South Australia that is usually dry, but occasionally record rainfall causes the lake to fill with
water and miraculously spring to life.
The Country's Australian correspondent Chris Russell told Jamie Mackay that after the rains Lake Eyre is teaming with fish, which in turn attracts birdlife and creates a "paradise."
This is in direct contrast to Lake Eyre's usual state, which Russell says is "fair dinkum a salt desert."
Russell is predicting this phenomenon may happen again soon with the "massive" amount of rainfall in Western and North Queensland which normally causes the lake to fill.
