Lake Eyre is full of water

their is a sailing club there, I saw it on tv a few weeks back. They even have regattas when there is water in the lake. 2011 was the first since the 70's !

Permission is not obtainable ..
at this stage the traditional owners do not allow sailing .. even the club has trouble.
A great example how political correctness and native title has gone wrong.
I researched this some time back and there is no way as far as I know that you legally can do this unfortunately. Would be a real experience ..

regards
gmd

I was keen to try Lake EYRE at Christmas. But a 60k very bad 4wd road to no water in sight put it off.
Was going to plead ignorance if caught.
2 days before had a quick try at Lake Cada????????????????? on the Coober Pedy- William creek road. water and wind but the air temp killed the wind power so considering the Black slime and heat I would put it down in the 'done that' basket, but not to be done again.

the yacht club is at Marree which is a few Hundred K from lake Eyre and maybe 100k from the bottom of little Lake Eyre.
we had a meal at the Marree hotel and the publican was saying he spent Christmas day water sking on a creek that entered Lake Eyre. belonged to one of the locals station owners. Only a 400k drive to go Skiing.

Henry from Queens kited it last year at the regatta needed zephyer ..... still only just enough .... and i believe theres a story about a tree also.. lol. In summary ....not worth the effort.

Tree? At lake eyre? I went there as a kid (1982) and there were no trees. When I say no trees I mean not one from horizon to horizon and it's a big horizon out there. I admit it was lake eyre south (little lake eyre) but it was full and big enough that you could not see the other side. We paddled a canoe in it without problems from the locals but back then they probably did not have native title yet. Would love to see it again. Even as a ten year old it's burnt in my memory as an utterly desolate, beautifull place.