The Coorong

I know the Coorong district mostly because of Storm Boy, the excellent film from 1976 about the young boy and Mr Percival, his pelican friend. There's been a recent film remake this year, though some reviewers wondered why. The Coorong is also the name of the long lake stretching down from the mouth of the River Murray.

Anyway, we passed by there on our way to Adelaide. It's looking rather dry, as is a lot of south eastern Australia. After all, much of the water that was supposed to flow down to here has been stolen by irrigators upstream. The drought has taken most of the rest, I suspect.





At Meningie we stopped for a toilet break, and I read about South Australia's 'only genuine bushranger', as I think he was described, John Francis Peggotty, the Birdman of the Coorong. He rode about on an ostrich, no less!