Saltpan

Project: Classroom for the saltpan community, Cohesion Foundation ❋ Unknown (2009)

Covering over 12,000 km2, it is one of the largest saltpan complexes in the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The shadow of the town walls reached almost to the small group a few hundred meters out on the saltpan. ❋ Unknown (2005)

_ The breaks in the saltpan exposed the waiting pukkawood seeds so that they could receive the elusive rain. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Scattered groups of triple patches in the saltpan nearby testified to previous years 'congregational outings. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Only one species of tree grew in planet Salton's extensive equatorial Drylands, the incredibly rare pukkawood that erupted from the saltpan at phenomenal speed during the half-centimeter blackline squalls that struck once every few decades -- the sole precipitation Drylands ever saw. ❋ Unknown (2005)

No more holes in the saltpan, no more disruption to my town. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Below Adkins, people shoved out of the wetlock to dance on the saltpan under the water falling hard from the sky. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Outside the Drylands mining town of Gypsum Flats, a small crowd of people raised three titanium crosses on the windswept saltpan. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Then the ground shook, the lightning cracks in the saltpan widening around the base of each cross. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The carnival had packed up with the dawn, leaving few scars of its passage, except for the huge lettering that someone had painted on the saltpan just outside the ten-meter exclusion zone. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Filtered through the squall, the sunlight scattered on the saltpan was muted, colored differently than she had ever seen it since coming to Drylands. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The saltpan was shattered where the bolts struck, smoking slightly in their passing both around the crosses and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Yet 68 years after the extraordinary wartime rescue of stranded US airmen by Aborigines and Benedictine monks, two very different worlds have again collided on a remote Kimberley saltpan. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Shady Lady's worlds collide again on a Kimberley saltpan ONE is an engaging octogenarian with a soothing Texan drawl, the other a Wanjina Wunggurr man who quietly promotes the traditional ways of his people. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Lake Eyre fever" has struck thousands of Australians eager to see the giant desert saltpan in rare flood, tour operators say. ❋ Unknown (2009)