Australia has an inland sea larger than Belgium, and it’s become a serious tourist attraction—at least until it dries up again.
Lake Eyre, also known as Kati Thanda is in South Australia. Recent rains and floods have filled it for the first time since 2019, and air tourism operators have rushed to organize air tours from Melbourne and other cities, usually involving an overflight, an overnight and return.
Dennis Hayward, one of the tour operators, told reporters that “You fly across many hundreds of kilometres of arid dry desert, in the driest continent in the world, then suddenly you come across this vast inland sea… it’s truly amazing to witness a meteorological event that happens infrequently in an area of Australia that is unique, massive in size and that has historical and almost mythical status.”
