8 Dec 2010

Loch dries up in drought

THE warmest spring on record and the driest in 41 years has had a knock-on effect at Yanchep National Park.

Water levels at Loch McNess are too low for the park’s popular rowboats to operate, and they will be in storage for the foreseeable future, in what is on course to be the second driest year since records began 130 years ago

Also, a bigger boat used to take visitors on a wildlife-spotting circuit of the lake has not been in use for three years and park acting manager Julia Coggins said it had been decommissioned because of low water levels.
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