West of Birdsville after the rain

Rain can convert the desert from a desolate dry land to a green grass and tree covered wonderland almost overnight.  A couple of weeks before we got to Birdsville they had good rain bringing new life to the desert.
The rains that fall through the summer wet season in north Queensland flow down the channel country into the Cooper Creek and on into Lake Eyre. When in flood, Lake Eyre is a virtual inland sea. On our first road trip out to this region while there had been good rain it was not as much as was needed to flood Lake Eyre.