I watched horrified as the first waterbird plummeted into the lake. Only the day before,this wetland had been her refuge, and now her life was overI stood by Lake Burrumbeet at 7am on Saturday, and what’s left of it. The still water of this wetland once lapped at the surrounding road but no longer. A kilometre trek across a boggy mud flat is now needed to reach water’s edge.
Red buoys that once highlighted a 5km an hour speed limit for boats were stuck upright in the mud. The misty eeriness was completed by the remains of long dead fish as far as the eye could see.
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Source: theguardian.com