Floodwaters entering Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre

One of Australia’s great natural events - this spectacular footage of floodwaters reaching the Warburton Creek on AWC’s Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary and entering Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. This water has travelled over 1,000 kilometres down the Diamantina-Warburton river system. The 670,000-hectare Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary protects the last 200 kilometres of the Warburton Creek and the north shore of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, providing a refuge for rare and threatened desert wildlife.

[@irafa2]

No words. Australia, you are beautiful. Keep protecting more places like this.

[@sherdawg]

It's the opposite the clowns at the parliament are ruining the land

[@downunderrob]

As an Australian, few things make my Heart fill with joy, more than a sight like this!

[@Mo_Polis]

That was so beautiful to watch! Almost unreal at times, like on another planet.

[@Mo_Polis]

@@somedumbozzie1539 Unbelievable ! thank you for your extensive explanation. Especially the way how it must feel driving there, and experience such a landscape. I could survive for days in nature if I had too, but this area you describe here, would mentally kill me.

[@rogerdudra178]

I'll bet everything around there is diggin the water. Good to see.

[@Gypsybunn]

I felt weird but I was rooting for the water!!

[@jacobytrainwreck5590]

So were the trees! ..yeah ill see myself out..

[@hirundine44]

Truly beautiful... sight to behold... kudos!

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

1000km in two months... that about 7.6 inches per second, 38 feet per minute, and .43 miles per hour

[@lolcatz88]

In Australia, we use the metric system... 📏

[@permanentmarkingkid4529]

No its not lol

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

@@permanentmarkingkid4529 Sure it is

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

please use metric next time.

[@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Why?

[@Iplayfrisbee4130]

how could anyone dislike this upload?

[@nasygorenh5639]

The weird person on internet.

[@ferrous719]

For me it's the fact that it has no shots more than about 5 seconds long. I want to watch the water eat away at the sand

[@snoochpounder]

Crap music

[@widowsuglyassshoe1300]

@@snoochpounder that's not a very good reason to dislike a video about flowing water....

[@Tony_Malini]

Australia is amazing!🇦🇺❤️

[@raybilalkharalkharal3825]

Hiii tony how are u

[@justanotherhuman1701]

Awesome photography and an awesome sight. Breathtaking. Well done.

[@tonyrobins2644]

Fantastic drone work good to c river run again 👍👌

[@ems7623]

Amazing. Wow. How is it that Australia is so magical

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Because the North sits close to the Equator and the South close to Antarctica. So the weather systems create fantastic landscapes.

[@louisaklimentos7583]

Amazing what motherv nature does

[@fen212]

It's breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for the lovely video

[@ryan-kane]

we should start funding more environmental and scientific research to improve sustainability with the Earth.

[@ryan-kane]

additionally, research into restoring environments to reclaim lost land and regenerate and rejuvenate land that wouldnt otherwise be useful i.e desert regions.

[@ebl36]

@@ryan-kane and help fund indigenous communities to teach us how they manage land.

[@susanwills4723]

How beautiful 1000 kms in two months amazing.we are such an ever changing country.I wouldn’t live anywhere else.

[@SueMead]

I was absolutely in awe of what I just watched. That leading edge in the opening shots were like a great beast mindfully pushing ever forward. Just phenomenal.

[@5cloudwalker]

Its good to see life returning with the return of the river 😊👍🏼

[@shaunkeith7097]

A Beautiful thing 🌏

[@osgabriel20]

Australian Wildlife keeps amazing and dazzling us, how diverse and beautiful it’s we have to safeguard it from climate change and other ecological challenges thanks for sharing

[@real_BARNEY]

Australia has enough trees to absorb all the carbon emissions of the world. Climate change is a political farce.

[@michaelfrazer1807]

Thank You

[@jonnewton5929]

That, was great. Thank you

[@jeffarcher400]

If we spent as much time and money on understanding and conserving water as we do on war we would have less to fight about.

[@Senkino5o]

Australia spends far more on 'understanding and conserving water' than we do on war, and in that case we would have MORE to fight about; this is a truly braindead comment. Not to mention that the Lake Eyre system is a masterpiece in NOT conserving water in the slightest, it rolls down from the Diamantina into the desert and evaporates.

[@jeffarcher400]

@@killashee7742 I'm for defending against China. Other countries need to carry their end. Our paying to have bases and keep stability should be reconsidered, they should pay us. How about no international aid till we get a balanced budget and zero deficit. The world looks at us like we're crazy for giving away our money when we are in debt.

[@myview5840]

The last war will be for water

[@denisejones3017]

Stunning almost brings a tear to my eye

[@aadityaanegi]

Such clean floodwater !

[@mohammadbino2333]

Amazing australia all the time ....

[@johnnymcblaze]

Never thought to hear the words "Feral herbivores" strung together.

[@ferrous719]

Every pet rabbit that gets released after easter....

[@jakovbrizic]

90% of the vegans are feral herbivores... At least the ones that are online.

[@shintenkai1648]

Words to make you feel like it's ok.

[@shintenkai1648]

For example: The white rhino could be classified as a feral herbivore but there is only 2 females left in the world, but the word feral is there so a bunch of people think they need culling because of room temp. IQ being the average lately.

[@purplesvet]

Lol. I know, interesting way of putting it. Feral camels, goats, pigs buffalo, horses, rabbits, rodents and deer. Did I miss any?

[@puneetmaheshwari]

So good Nature is always a pleasure

[@deborahpetith8710]

Looks amazing.

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

Excellent presentation thanks, by the way I think your country is fantastic, from your lovely continent to your people and history [albeit a short history]👍👍👍👍👍☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@peterclancy3653]

Suggest you read "The biggest estate on earth." I am still reading it and it is mind blowing. Thanks for your comment

[@au-xe7id]

Australias history is long a beautiful. If ur meaning the white man's history, than yes its been short. But Australia Aboriginals have an ancient and beautiful history.

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

@@au-xe7id yes, point taken , I didn’t mean to put the Aboriginal aside, but point taken my friend

[@sd90mac61]

It's so nice to see that our lord can supply water at desert areas as well as areas needed, WHAT EXCELLENT FOOTAGE 👍, for water is the source of (ALL Life), WATER, RAIN IS 💯% WELCOMED ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, more rain🌦️🌧️🌩️💧 please 🙏🙏🙏😊✌️😉👍

[@elnabjelland-hughes8172]

Amazing and beautiful 😊💕💕

[@pauldooley6786]

Very much enjoyed that.

[@risch18]

I donate to AWC, it's money well spent. I encourage others to do the same.

[@123TauruZ321]

Nice. What a wonderful world.

[@gregortidholm]

Beautiful 😍

[@twopremiers1801]

A healing balm on an open wound,such a wonderful sight.

[@kenea3226]

What a great video.

[@jacobsgranddaughter]

Beautiful!❤️🇦🇺

[@markissboi3583]

Straya mostly dry until Qld lets go with storms Lake Eyre 1,000klms L8tr 100,000 birds bred here after it filled .

[@dankish4208]

Where is it coming from? I don’t know much about this kinda thing but but I’ve heard floods are happening a lot more now

[@hiralpatel6533]

It's best idea to save water and harvest new land👌🌹

[@scottwins2]

Well done mate

[@fresskoalbanese]

I wonder how does it look now???

[@debraolivier2147]

Loved your video! It's similar to the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

[@AG-ig8uf]

Unfortunately it is not. Floods are nowhere near as regular as in Okavango. Australian weather patterns are more "erratic" and sometimes there is no floods at all for years and even decades, and whole area turns into completely dry salt plane.

[@ionidhunedoara1491]

How much is traversable by kayak?

[@HKspurs10]

i wonder if check dams and gabions could help raise the water table and slow down evaporation

[@peterschaefer2946]

what is a katithanda

[@urmotherfather2584]

if all the iceberg ice melt , isnt its better for wildlife who live in desert ?

[@420frankp]

Where was the lake? I seen a river.

[@amogus7277]

it was dry. At 1:26 water starts to pour into the lake

[@MyEarthEcoNut]

So beautiful! Great drone work too =0)

[@peterlovett5841]

Funny, that area north of Lake Eyre was where I saw all the feral camel herds.

[@deblynch2234]

My younger days were involved with camel treks. Mostly my partner, he was a cameleer. Nothing compares to seeing our country via camel. Cooking off the coals, sleeping in swags, the stars are your ceiling. In summer in Adelaide there were winery trips through McLaren Vale. The winter month long treks were just awesome.

[@raybilalkharalkharal3825]

Peter lovett hiii how are u

[@matycee]

that was great...!

[@Nebarus]

Water, the true spice of life...

[@yunggkieeef6984]

thats amazing

[@HenryDube72]

What language is Kati Thanda and what does it mean? It means something else in my language and I'm not from Australia.

[@HenryDube72]

@@consciousbeing1188 thanks

[@LWJCarroll]

Just wondering what the Aboriginal names of the two rivers are?

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

I think the one's called White Savior River and the others called Sino Justice Warrior Flume.

[@rhienwelzel]

Kawabata mazi and potonamo etic Just kidding there isn’t just one aboriginal language or culture, it’s like asking Europeans what they call a river let alone what a particular river is called 👌🏻

[@LWJCarroll]

I figured there would be a local Aboriginal tribal group in the area who would have their own names for the two rivers? Like here in New Zealand where local Iwi etc have local names for rivers and mountains etc..pretty similar to Eurooe and the Americas etc..Thanks Laurie

[@moosesnWoop]

Water is life.

[@faysalahmedsany1832]

It's one of my best video scenerio

[@stonecraft1452]

2:09 Looks like a bad render :'D

[@markmark2080]

Wow, just checked it out on Google Earth, wonder when the last time was, that it had water shore to shore...

[@peter.a.langan5872]

I think it was two years ago, not long anyway, but it’s very infrequent.

[@markmark2080]

@@peter.a.langan5872 Thanks,Peter, after doing more research I learned about the "basin" that drains into it. Makes me think of how the Great Basin in Nevada may have been at one time.

[@ebl36]

I think there may be some there at the mo - Queensland has had a wet summer... so hopefully!

[@DazBochiz]

@@ebl36 takes a few months to get from queensland

[@ebl36]

@@DazBochiz it was wet in some areas over Chrissy

[@davorlekenik9563]

What means "Kati Thanda"??

[@sti9754]

It translates as "Big lagoon way out back where Aunty Eileen used to go fishin' ".... Well that's what Uncle Cubby told me, back in the dreamtime.

[@galadhremmin]

it means "lake Eyre"

[@robertkreiling1746]

So if I should go there that music will be playing somewhere in the background ?

[@hellogoodbye3129]

Yes, but when you here it, you get nose bleeds and vertigo.

[@eddyfitzgerald2518]

The sound of nature would be way better

[@420frankp]

@@hellogoodbye3129 hear* you know? Like, you hear with your ear. Same letters. Just with an h.

[@hellogoodbye3129]

@@420frankp it was an auto correct. Hear as in hearing, not to be confused with listening.

[@hellogoodbye3129]

But thank you for the PSA.

[@GilbertMitullah]

Rivers in the desert place!

[@joking7081]

In Australia we waste huge quantities of water which falls in the tropics and runs out to sea. We could total transform Australia by pumping this water south to the arid areas by creating northern dams and cheap nuclear power to pump the water for use in natural habitats and to assist farmers during droughts

[@thesqrtofwhy758]

Only in Australia... Look what happens when you are flipped upside down🙃

[@andrewsidwell1871]

Hi I want to get in contact with the rights holder for this footage. Could you please share any public facing details. Thanks

[@AustralianWildlifeConservancy]

Hi Andrew. This footage was captured by our videographer Brad Leue and copyrighted to Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

[@goyoutube1189]

I think the water come every year on this place

[@islandercirce2]

It actually doesn't. Lake Eyre is bone dry most of the time. It only fills up about 4 times each century, lasts generally less than a year before drying out again.

[@user-kt3jn7wx5f]

👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@davorlekenik9563]

😲😲😳😳👍👍👍

[@alokranjan2814]

Vast lonely land complete vacant Australia 🦘 really a continent,full of venemous spices, excavation and extract minerals required, a unique place of the world.

[@gavinirving8184]

Stay in your hole

[@jeremytole3493]

Everything had a good drink

[@mr.subtle3831]

This is the 1000 km pilgrimage I pay homage to ✊🏽

[@Wo_Wang]

Пустыня Южных Симпсонов? :)

[@iixixiboy3475]

Well this video pop up after I watch a video Australia hit by massive Flood..

[@prun8893]

Once the water arrives, how long 'til the elephants come to drink?

[@piggypiggypig1746]

Depends. The Elephants have to swim across the Indian ocean, which depending on conditions could be anywhere between 4 to 6 weeks.

[@rivernet62]

In California, the farmers would call that a “waste” and wonder why you hadn’t placed dams, in order to divert for agriculture.

[@Nohandle4me2]

Don’t worry; they say that here too

[@josephastier7421]

These avocados aren't going to water themselves.

[@turbolq4]

California wouldn't have a water problem if the government didn't have rediculus rules about water management. The problems there are self inflicted.

[@rivernet62]

@@turbolq4 all world problems are self inflicted: too many damn people.

[@Nohandle4me2]

@@turbolq4 I know. Things like that just shouldn’t be managed by governments

[@himhim3344]

1080p existed 2 years ago. You should have used it😒

[@FoodRecipes108]

Kati thanda in india means very cold

[@HELLRZR-nm3vv]

Just a tiny bit of re greening would hold on to that water a lot longer..

[@Number-oo8xq]

Probably alot of dissolved solids in the first of that.

[@defencebangladesh4068]

Thanda means cold in Bangla

[@deerdeerdeerdeer9698]

We need to plant trees thare right now

[@TruFrag]

Better land management and this video wouldn't exist as the lake would always have some water in it.

[@hoasco5599]

Any rain in the Lake Eyre basin ends up in the lake itself(not that it really rains much, if at all). Its called a basin because it is literally below sea level. The same story with any water running down from the Dimantina/Georgina, it ends up in Lake Eyre. Explain how better land management could help this? Or what you would even be trying to achieve with better land management?

[@tallguy2882]

@@hoasco5599 what they mean is that we all need to stop everything and stop existing so that all other life on the planet has priority. They are to stupid to also know it’s a salt flat that part of its natural cycle is to dry out and only be filled after monsoon rains..

[@Gustav4]

That water should have penetrate into the soil where it fell and slowly seeped into the river with clean water making it a perennial river, instead of just making it a unhealthy dead water drain.

[@dschonsie]

@@tallguy2882 we want to stop you from everything that will finally end the existence of us. you shouldn't only start to brush your teeth when they already have holes

[@Gustav4]

@@tallguy2882 It might be many hundred years since that land were able to support plants, but it is not natural. The tool of fire used excessively through many thousands of years has been devastating to the biology in the brittle environments of Australia (+many other countries and still are). This complex unintended consequence of human intervention, which has happened in all brittle environments though out the world, failed to be recognized by humankind until very recently.

[@Ro_Ball]

I dream that one day I'll see water flowing like this from the Mediterranean Sea into the Qattara depression, turning it into an inland sea. Beautiful video.

[@peterk2455]

You would need a 65km canal from El Alamein, rising 100m in elevation, then down to Al Maghra which is 23m above sea level. A tunnel would be best option, but very expensive. It would create an inland sea.

[@rizzorizzo2311]

You better watch out for the spaghetti sharks

[@Rickyrab]

Mad Max says hi

[@cisco6926]

A lake on Mars!

[@garyalexander7674]

🙂❤🤗😎

[@yggdrasil9039]

Just think, this would be a permanent feature if we followed Sir John Bradley's last plan to turn the QLD rivers inland, instead of emptying into the sea and dumping agrochemicals into the GBR.

[@yggdrasil9039]

@Va Sr Sydney Harbour Bridge also very expensive, and destroyed a lot of people's homes in the Rocks. Yet it got built.

[@yggdrasil9039]

@Va Sr No argument from me on lessening use of dumb chemicals by farmers. AI can help to model exact ecosystems enabling a natural predator to be included into the crop along with a system of flora and fauna interdependencies so creating a virtually pest free environment with zero need for pesticides or GM crops. But climate warming is going to be increasing rainfall in the tropics over the next few years and decades. We need to capture that and not let it just flood back to the ocean with enormous run-off that will be caused by the sheer deluge of water driven by an increased water-cycle driven by climate warming. Turning that water inland, towards the centre of Australia, will both protect downstream river erosion (rivers can still flow naturally - it's not about capturing 100%) with the overflow instead directed towards Lake Eyre. Dr. Bradfield was a genius and saw 100 years into the future.

[@yggdrasil9039]

@Va SrPerhaps initially expensive, as the Harbour Bridge was, but a lot cheaper in the long run than importing all our food from China because we can no longer grow anything. The same argument is made about renewable energy. The fact is, once it's built, it provides endless ongoing benefits for 100s of years.

[@justdoesntaddup8620]

@@yggdrasil9039 the fact it renewables have a use by life of around 15 years, the Broken Hill Nyngan 2,000,000 panel solar farm (650mw on a good day) is already @ 50% of its use by life , then all those panels go to landfill. It’s unlikely they will be replaced as the experiment is a complete failure , just as the river water diversion would be, simply allowing more irrigation to silt the already deteriorating natural waterways and heavy agro chemicals from cotton etc., to wash and degrade all the way down to lake Eyre. The loss of all that fresh water would no doubt change the aquaculture industry by completely interrupting the ecology of the river systems and near shore Nth QLD marine life. Wouldn’t even pass the pub test.

[@yggdrasil9039]

@@justdoesntaddup8620 Well you better tell that to my solar panels, because they are still going strong after 20 years and only about 10% loss of efficiency (1.5kW now giving about 1.35kW).

[@BoCaine]

aqualogists be like: yup there it is

[@janosik150]

this river should have leaking rock dams to hold more water inland then let is run... this is the true project that Australia should do..

[@galadhremmin]

why dont you build dams to save these waters?

[@ebl36]

It’s better for the environment and local ecosystems if that doesn’t happen. Look up the Murray/Darling basin to see what happens when the do use dams and mismanage the water.

[@DazBochiz]

@@ebl36 a good example elsewhere is the aral sea which has virtually dried up

[@ebl36]

@@DazBochiz Thank you. I remember seeing this in passing in a programme. I must research this - it’s both sad and interesting.

[@whitebuffalo3425]

Mars, when we start thawing ice...

[@haroldsmith5150]

Dry ice doesn't turn to water lol

[@MinogFarted]

Hello

[@sherpadai5452]

Kati thanda means so cold in nepali. Wtf

[@theunknowngamer5477]

Use a red color filter, at 1:30, the similarity to some of the features of the surface of Mars play out, especially into and from the edge of craters. Oooops, no active environment, I forgot.

[@joanmurray5227]

Suspicious.

[@georgehays4900]

Water in a dry land

[@Gustav4]

That water should have penetrate into the soil where it fell and slowly seeped into the river with clean water making it a perennial river, instead of just making it a unhealthy dead water drain.

[@tylerveitch4842]

Dam it it and plant trees and shrub to generate top soil

[@plumbrose1]

flood the lake and bring back the ancient inland sea.

[@surfinmuso37]

"Protected"......unless they find oil, gas, coal or uranium there. To me that is not protection.