The Boom Before the Bust

The Boom Before the Bust

Throughout the Channel Country of Western Queensland, there are thousands of temporary gullies, channels and braids filled with shallow water snaking their way across the landscape. Each of these miniature water ways supports a variety of insect life, amphibian life and fish. These creatures all form part of the food chain that explodes into action after a flood event.

If you look carefully at this photo, you will see schools of little fish. Sadly, these water ways will dry up within the next few weeks, and the insect and fish life will cease to exist. And that, my friends, is the bust part of the boom and bust cycle.

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