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Skriven 2007-09-18 12:57:09 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: BOAT TRIPS  70916
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 DD> Seriously, many streams have dried up to mere trickles. And I am
 DD> seeing  sand bars in others that were never visible before.

 GJ> Our main river, the Murray, doesn't make it to the sea anymore. 

tracing the murry backward from the coast, it is kinda hard to tell... i
definitely see areas that were obviously wide riverbed areas that have a small
channel thru them now... way back up near taylorville and markaranka, you can
see that the river was once 5 or 6 times as wide as the channel that is
currently visible... there look to be several areas that may now be salt or
sand flats all up thru the bed... some of the photos that have been put
together are not as clear as others... it is hard to see what it is like up
around good hope landing and devlins pound but the wide streambed is still
pretty visible with the narrow channel meandering back and forth across it...
north of kingston-on-the-murry looks like it was once a very large inland lake
or sea at one time... all that area over around loxton, too, really looks like
it was all shore towns around the big lake or sea, whatever it may have been
somewhere over in there, appears to be several waterways that combine... i
wasn't tracing via a map but instead with satelite photos so i don't know
if/when the name changed but you can definitely see how it used to be...

)\/(ark

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