Lake Pamamaroo

Description

Lake Pamamaroo

Lake Pamamaroo is one of the nine interconnected lakes that form the Menindee Lakes system, a vast inland reservoir fed by the Darling River.

Along the shoreline, the landscape shifts into something otherworldly. The shallows are crowded with the skeletal remains of trees—once thriving on dry ground, now long dead after the water levels were raised in the 1960s. Their trunks and branches stand frozen in place, stark reminders of a landscape transformed.

On this particular afternoon, a storm was rolling in across the basin. Clouds gathered above the lake, and the shifting light cast the dead trees into sharp, eerie silhouettes. The combination of the approaching storm and the ghostly forest rising from the water gave the scene an almost haunted quality, as if the lake were holding onto memories of the land it once was.