Lake George Filling. Images of Canberra

colourful sydney racing identity said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Captain RAAF said :

It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!

I think your times may be a little off…

it was bone dry in 2002 – http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386313869.html

Didn’t take long for it to empty, though.

I can’t remember it lapping the edges of the road in 2000, but I do remember it was up there not long before they started duplication of the Fed Hwy, which was completed in time for the Olympic Games in Sydney.

At the time I wondered how well the drainage systems would cope and would the road ever get flooded. Ha, that has so far proved to be a pointless thought.

When I was a kid, Lake George being mostly full was its normal state, and we got excited when the levels went down. Now it’s the reverse. I think the farmer has got used to having much bigger paddocks than he should have.

yellowsnow said :

I’ve heard rumours that Lake George is connected through subterranean channels with some lake in China.

No, no, no!
It’s a lake in New Zealand 🙂

Correct.
It’s Lake Wakatipu next to Queenstown in the southern island, which has dried up.

I have my sauce, made from 100% cow manure.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Captain RAAF said :

It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!

I think your times may be a little off…

it was bone dry in 2002 – http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386313869.html

andym said :

Captain RAAF said :

If only they would dig the bugger down another 100m and fill it with Cod, trout and Yellowbelly, it would make a great tourist attraction!

If you can source a few nukes we can give it a whirl……..
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom/

Let’s limit the fish stocking to native varieties please. No trout.

Captain RAAF said :

It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!

I think your times may be a little off…

yellowsnow said :

I’ve heard rumours that Lake George is connected through subterranean channels with some lake in China. Anyone got any pics of the Chinese lake, presumably it’s drying up right about now?

I am sure the Greens have got one.

I’ve heard rumours that Lake George is connected through subterranean channels with some lake in China. Anyone got any pics of the Chinese lake, presumably it’s drying up right about now?

Captain RAAF said :

It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!

I’ve heard rumours of the lake back in the day and have always wanted to see it flooded.

Captain RAAF said :

If only they would dig the bugger down another 100m and fill it with Cod, trout and Yellowbelly, it would make a great tourist attraction!

If you can source a few nukes we can give it a whirl……..
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom/

It was chockers when we first got posted to Canberra, early 2000. The water was lapping the drainage ditches alongside the highway. It was a spectacular sight!

If only they would dig the bugger down another 100m and fill it with Cod, trout and Yellowbelly, it would make a great tourist attraction!

Yeah, when I had another look I realised the Fed. must be underneath the photographer’s spot. Possibly up on the winery, or as you say, Marked Tree Rd.

EvanJames said :

Jivrashia said :

I don’t recognise the landscape…

Which vantage point is that?

If those are the windmills visible through the mist on the left, then it’s from the Federal Hwy, on the Collector end.

Looks a bit higher up to me, probably on Marked Tree Road. There’s some great vantage points up there. It is dirt/gravel but I’ve managed to negotiate it a few times in my nippy hatchback on low profile tyres. And if you start at the northern end (ie. roughly where that pic was taken) and keep going you end up in Gundaroo so you can enjoy a meal at Grazing before going back to Canberra.

Great pics, thank you both. We’ve been wondering how Lake George is looking.

Jivrashia said :

I don’t recognise the landscape…

Which vantage point is that?

If those are the windmills visible through the mist on the left, then it’s from the Federal Hwy, on the Collector end.

I don’t recognise the landscape…

Which vantage point is that?

I reckon it’ll be full by the end of the month.

Fill Fill Fill!!!