Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’

A pulse of flood water has surged into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in what could be the most significant top-up in a generation. The water coursing south through inland river systems will dissolve the usually salty crust to produce an inland sea. “It’s amazing in the sheer volume and speed at which [the flood water is] travelling over the countryside,” he said. View image in fullscreen ‘It’s an explosion of the cycle of life and death’ … Paul Hoelen has photographed the slow march of flood waters toward Lake Eyre. The aerial photographer has documented the region for more than a decade and was among the first to capture the flood waters continuing their slow march toward Lake Eyre’s vast salt pan.