Migration

From dust to flooding rains, the outback comes to life. The Cooper, Diamantina, the Georgina does the same. Tributaries twist and turn on baked red earth for weeks and months, the water snakes, soaking flood plains into mats of green. Then they come — the birds — to the inland sea, Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, so rich in its diversity. The Kati Thanda people tell of dreamtime stories, as ancient as the continent, the serpent and the Yellow Belly, with Barcoo Grunter, Spangled Perch, and Desert Rainbowfish. The salty lake explodes, millions of waterbirds feast. The miracle of a desert seethes with life. Tourists descend! Just takes a drop of rain! The Last Supper a memory!