A big drink for the Menindee Lakes - Darling River Run

[@flyingparrotphotography]

Oh my!! So many pelicans!! Great footage, I'm headed there in August, can't wait... 🙌

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

It’s an amazing place!
Thanks for watching

[@fionamcwilliam8703]

Thank you for showing this! As a coastal Aussie it's rare for me to get out there so it's good to know what it's like when the water comes in. I have seen the Darling at Menindee but that's it.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Fiona, it’s a great region

[@davidnelson4707]

wow you drove on a bitumen road. That was a dirt road some times graded goat track when I was there. [1967]. I have never seen so many pelicans together. A great video. Interesting shot of the mid air encounter with a pelican. It wasn’t that long ago that the Darling river was in flood.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

G’day David.
The bitumen hasn’t long gone down between Pooncarie and Menindee.
It’s a massive improvement, makes it easier to dodge all the animals ;)

[@BonesFPV]

Very cool video. Thanks very much.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching

[@badenpobjoy8274]

Some AWSOME footage there, a GREAT watch... cheers ~baden~

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Baden

[@allegrosotto2126]

Wonderful news, thanks for sharing 👍

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching @Allegrosotto

[@DaleDays-bo6jy]

Nice video. Enjoyed the scenery and seeing all the Pelicans.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for the watching Dale

[@DoomKid]

Such a beautiful region!

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching @doomkid

[@pembridgehouse]

Thanks foir thus, Great to see.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Geoff

[@kayenash5481]

Every Peelican in Australia must be there!

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Kaye

[@peteranson4021]

Wow, great to see. I flew over the lakes about 5 years ago and they were all empty except for one small lake.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Peter.

[@davidnelson4707]

Your drone would have come off second best if it hit that Pelican. They are a very solid bird. I have hit 2 in my aircraft and the first one did a heap of damage to the front cowling and the second bird hit my windscreen and nearly caved that in . Very scary.

[@davidnelson4707]

It was great footage of that pelican . I wonder what was going through his mine when he saw your drone.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Yep, panicked for a second.
It’s only a little DJI Mini.
Would have ended up in the bottom of the lake for sure

[@MiniLuv-1984]

I have a vague memory of Menindee lakes containing clear water - would have been in the late 70's - that may be a garbled memory..I wonder if anyone one else can back that up?

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

That would be interesting to know Ben.
Thanks for watchingb

[@tonyg2002Aust]

I have always seen the Menindee Lakes and the Darling River water as the colour of milky tea. Often when taking a photo, the lake water would look blue in the picture, due to reflection of the sky.
I was born in 1955 and lived in Broken Hill in the sixties. So my comments are as a Broken Hillite who had occasional visits for swimming, camping and on a few occasions fishing.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

@@tonyg2002Aust thanks for the info Tony.

[@MiniLuv-1984]

@@tonyg2002Aust Thanks Tony.

[@bas4903]

Those pelicans must've come from far and wide

[@rodbennett]

Well that bird footage was amazing. Dont bury the lead.

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

Thanks for watching Rod.
Yeh, I should of done a slo-mo of it

[@cinemaipswich4636]

...and yet nobody knows, how the birds know, that there is water there? Seagulls?

[@thelonewolf666]

if they banned cotton farming it would look like this every year

[@outandaboutsunraysia]

100%

[@camo6344]

If Queensland and nsw didn’t have a drought it wouldn’t look like that ones it rained it was fixed

[@zonabrown9241]

😮😢totally right ban cotton farming

[@ross4970]

The water would flow out to sea and it would dry up if there's no rain.

[@user-gk1nt6sm2z]

Great for the climate alarmists