Reading the description on that site it sounds terrible, mud for miles, tropical ulcers and so salty that its a health hazard. So much for that romantic notion.
"The Lake protects itself from overuse by killing the careless""
thats to the point
It's on....
from www.adelaidenow.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
BUSINESSMAN and adventurer Dick Smith has been made a Rear Admiral of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club as sailors roll into a small South Australian town for the club's rare desert regatta.
"I am THE Rear Admiral of the yacht club," Mr Smith said today.
"And to commemorate this we will put a big marina there, I think, something bigger than in Dubai," he joked.
The clubhouse sits in the small town of Marree, 685km north of Adelaide, on the edge of the desert in SA.
Its members can only sail on the very rare occasion when floodwaters from other states turn the salt beds into vast inland lakes.
Commodore Bob Backway says sailing in the desert is a rare and glorious experience.
He is expecting 200 people and sixty boats to take part in the club's 10th birthday regatta from July 5 to 9 on Lake Killamperunna, where Cooper Creek crosses the Birdsville Track, about an hour and a half north of Marree.
Susie posted some photos of a lake eyre trip three of them did a year or so ago - I think they sailed it without fins cause the water was so shallow - I cannot fin either the thread or photos.
http://www.susiesphotos.com.au/html/Travel/lakeeyretripup1.html
www.susiesphotos.com.au/html/Travel/lakeeyretripup2.html
www.susiesphotos.com.au/html/Windsurfing/windsurfinglakeeyre.html
www.susiesphotos.com.au/html/Windsurfing/windsurfinglakeeyre2.html
This trip was just so much fun and I have never laughed so much as when we windsurfed on the lake. Just make sure the wind is blowing towards you cos after we sailed the water all went to the other side of the lake.
Susie
ps it was absolutely freezing up there, wear a beanie.
Beaut photos Suze. Not so much the windsurfing but the lake, the road, the outback.
As for the windsurfing, at least you can say you've sailed Lake Eyre. 
If you did SAIL it you be 50 to 100 feet below sea level. Ive flowen over it in a light plane........ below sea level............ and thats one of the few places in the world where you can.
you need a 3m flood to get the water to fill up to the shore of halligan bay, last year it was only just over 1m, so it blows around.
that salty mud is bloomin awful.
I am so pi##ed at not getting to go to the regatta. my schooner would have loved it. I would have loved to sail across the Birdsville track
Seen a report on the local news,showed some cars turning up for the event,one had a windsurfer on the roof.There's a bit of a shortage of wind up there at the moment and Ive just finished a night shift block at Roxby,bloody freezing nights up there at the moment.
So if Lake Eyre, which is well below sea level was linked to the ocean, what would be pros and cons?
Pros would be there is a permanent inland sea in Australia which is bound to good for windsurfing.
Cons, I am not sure. Any ideas?
In theory it sounds good ,but....someone tried to explain to me once that it wouldn't work,cant remember the reasons,maybe its because its north of Port Augusta which is towards the top of Australia and water wont run uphill,[just a thought]just thinking about it though,a three mtr tidal surge through a canal[white water rafting anyone++]and if the flow were regulated through a weir then it would soon become a very salty lake me thinks.
Salt water goes in...
Fresh water evaporates out...
What's left?
Salt. And lots of it. I see a massive environmental disaster if this were to happen.
Don't mess with nature 
Over that sort of distance seawater would only flow in, it wouldn't flow out at all (except maybe right at the inlet). I've seen quite a few rivers like that -- they're tidal, but the flow is always one-way.
So every day you'd have thousands of tonnes of salt flowing in, and nothing coming out. Yowzers. You'd end up with something approaching the salinity of the dead sea at best, and a hugely massive salt pan at worst. They don't call it the dead sea for nothing
Or I might be completely wrong and it would make the desert flourish
The bloke on this page is basically saying the same thing as you are Nebbian.
www.k26.com/eyre/The_Lake/Ideas/Fill_Lake_Eyre_/fill_the_lake.html
So it may be good for about 100 years but after that it would be a salty wasteland. I agree with you in that river diversions and dams usually stuff things up.
