PP: What a fascinating story! Sailing on an ephemeral lake that appeared on the desert as if to celebrate The Year of Strzelecki?!

Dean Sewell When more than 400mm of unseasonal rain was dumped on the northern end of South Australia’s Flinders Ranges in February 2022, it wasn’t only local graziers who welcomed it. The deluge meant a huge ephemeral inland water body – Lake Boocaltaninna – formed on a tributary of Strzelecki Creek, part of the Lake Eyre Basin. Quick to realise the potential this presented for adventure sailing in the desert was Bob Backway, commodore of the Lake Eyre Yachting Club (LEYC), perched on the gravelly corner at the start to the Oodnadatta Track. I’d been waiting a decade for something like this and the photographic opportunity it presented. So when I heard Bob had put out a call to club members for an organised adventure sail on Boocaltaninna, I was already packing for the 4000km odyssey from my home in Sydney’s Blue Mountains to join the the world-renowned inland yachting club to document the event.

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