The Lovely Waranga Basin

After our marvellous Australia Day celebrations, we decided to go to Waranga Basin, seeing as it was a holiday and all, and the Basin is a fine piece of australiana (does that count, if it's man-made?). Well we had to make my day off worthwhile anyway. And it was hot, but not too hot.
The water was so low. and there was weird machinery over by the wall, near the water. Maybe it was pumping equipment, cos neville said they've had to pump into the channel again cos it was too low to flow out.

While we were there, admiring the weird landscape and things buried in the sand, only unearthed because the water has disappeared, some helicopter like machines flew over us, and the (pilots?) waved at us. I don't think they had to fly over us, they just wanted to say hello. Pete says he thinks they were some kit like things that you actually have to make, you can't just buy them. Maybe. They were certainly weird-looking.

Then as we were leaving, people emerged from the trees in the direction of the helicopters, and (drove?) away in a boat that had been sitting there by itself the whole time we were there. It seemed like a nice lifestyle to me. Flying, boating, all in the same afternoon.