Hi all ,
Just got back from a quick trip between road closures due to rain up the Birdsville track for a ride on the Cooper ferry.
Water everywhere ,flowers magnificant and the best feed of big blue claw yabbies in years
Great!
Cheers,
Mary

great pics oh them yabbies gotta love them yummo

Life vest on a ferry. That's a worry. An historical moment to treasure. Almost once in a century event. Is it still busy out there?

Life vest for everyone even operators-Regulations? It's really just a couple of pontoons with an outboard each side. I thinks i would probably worn the vest I took if they weren't provided! it is apparently 4m deep in the middle and quite wide-too far for me to swim without something to keep me above water. Was pretty quiet only passed 1 other vehicle on the way up but while we were there a few more turned up.No wating to speak of . Just wanted to do the trip for the fun /historical reasons. loved it!

I understand that historical reasoning. Is the ferry on the Birdsville Track west of Walkers Crossing? What a year it has been. Even this country, up along the overlander highway, is the top of the Lake Eyre Basin, the head of the Channel Country catchment, according to a sign I passed today. I was very surprised the catchment is so vast. Isn't this country of ours wonderful?

Yes it's  huge catchment.Sobering to think that the ferry -80 ks north of Maree -is crossing waterway filled by rains in Qld