you'll need a very small weedy to sail in that!!!!
Bugger, is that going to kill the weed for the next few years, or is there still a bit of weed and water in the middle?
Is that your back yard Jombob?
Need some Queenslanders down there to help you with the weed.
Where was this photo taken? It seems to me the S.A waterways authorities whoever they are are obsessed with keeping seawater out of waterways that naturally had seawater periodically entering them.
photo's from 5mile drift and this is after we had 3 to inches of rain the last few weeks.
Have the council allocated any funding to dig out the inlet on the winter king tides Jamie?
If not, I'll meet you there with shovel in hand 
So I might have been the last to speed sail LG....
gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2016-01-26&team=33
pity you could not join me, was still fun on the big lake
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photo's from 5mile drift and this is after we had 3 to inches of rain the last few weeks.
Hey Jamie can you walk out and find my sunnies.. about 750m out from 5 mile a bit upwind.. shouldn't be too hard to find!!!
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photo's from 5mile drift and this is after we had 3 to inches of rain the last few weeks.
Hey Jamie can you walk out and find my sunnies.. about 750m out from 5 mile a bit upwind.. shouldn't be too hard to find!!!
And Aldo's mast off the middle island. I too offer my shovel for a little digging.
Cripes Jimbob! since when does LG freeze over?. Never mind the need for weed fins, we will need an ice breaker to get through that. 
The spit Big lake side.....subi is parked where I done my first 40 ever with Hamma.
Sammys Gap 
bone dry...lakes are separated totally can drive from spit to cockys. actually drove onto snake island where I took this pic from. Sammy would be crying. ill get over to barby island and look for masts know there a pryde one there too, will also take pic of Carls board snapping rocks,
ill find ya glasses Red remember seeing your crash when you lost them FUNNY as.
the sand in the channel to the sea is up to the bridge gunna be a huge job bit much for a few spades guys.
people on the LG management committee tell me its gunna be dug out but the drainage board who do it are very doubtful but either way the weed is gunna be a long way from recovering to the glory days.
Might need a few runs with the plow and seeder to get the weed going. Should be able to place it to cm accuracy now. I have been on another planet for the last 15years and lterally dicovered lg on this internet thing just a few days ago. I watched kato's record video and the place just looked so cool. I was starting to think about a trip and now this. First i discover there are trees growing on sandy point, then i discover no luderitz in 2016, and now this....
what next?
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Jimbob,
Whats happened to the bird life?
They follow the water, or perish. I heard that Lake Eyre is filling up. That will get the numbers up again.
Yes
I know of two groups who did it back in the 90's (I think) and also about 5 years back..
Lake Eyre Yacht club is having a Regatta soon.
www.lakeeyreyc.com/Regatta/2016/2016%20RegattaFlyer.pdf
Hmmm.... I feel another trip coming on. Oh-Oh! Might be a bit short notice for me to get there!
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does this happen often at this place during the dry season? that's ruthless
Jimbob will be able to tell you with more authority, but my impression is this is the first time.
Previously the water level and salinity has been managed to help fish breed in there.
There's freshwater inputs and an ocean channel. But as Jimbob says the ocean channel is full of sand, and the freshwater was diverted to other lakes further west.
A great shame, this was one of the Australian premier GTC venues, maybe not the fastest in Australia, but all other divisions are possible.
Many sailors have several of their PBs here.
OK. You dig the trench and I have found the pump! 
It does around 1.5m gallons and hour at full noise! 750mm Pipe!
These two whoppers could probably fill Lake George in a Month or two!
Two V12 twin Turbo 2 stroke Diesels driving two 1 meter diameter inlet and outlet pipes. Over 6M gallons and hour. I would hate to be paying the fuel bill!
Not sure of your plan Sailquick. Are you aiming to push the maximum allowable tidal assist in a speed trench with those pumps?
Reminds me of the speed cyclists, the maximum allowable slope for record setting is 2/3 of 1%. That's right, they searched the entire continent for a straight uniform downhill section of road with a 2/3 of 1% gradient. ( 85.71 mph, Battle mountain Nevada, www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/9/18/9351763/worlds-fastest-bike-human-powered 85.71 mph )
Nah Ian, I just want to fill up a trench somewhere windy!
My Cousin said the dam is filled to within 30 cm of the top. I asked him if they ever have any strong winds. He said a super cell storm came through before christmas and flattened some grain silo's! 
. I told him that might be just a tad more than I was looking for! 
I was in the Wimmera once when you fellas were having a windy day at Sandy Point. It was windy there also. Flat as, and a few irrigation ditches around. Do a google search of "Wimmera irrigation channels". This google earth shot seems to have a dry irrigation channel in it?
Yeah, I thought that was a good avenue to explore some time ago, but I found almost all of them have trees or forest alongside them, and they are very rarely filled to the top.
