Drying up -around Goolwa

Today John and I went for a drive around the lower lakes and the River Murray. I will do these photos in a couple of parts.
these are showing what it looks like around Goolwa and on Hindmarsh island. The first is of the worm that will only grow in salty water,already growing on the backs of tortoises and killing them, here on posts, this area is normally fresh water above the barrages but it is not.
The next shows boat landings that would normally be in deep water now high and dry. In some places it looks as if there is plenty of water but so much of it is so very shallow that recreational boaties are having a hard time getting any where.
The next is of a boat moored and leaning on its side, now moored to the bottom, and the extent of mud between the land and the water. Those in the back ground are in slightly deeper water near the remaining channel, but for how long?
Finally a view of the northern shore of Hindmarsh Island, more exposed mud and sand.
What we saw further on was even more depressing but I will put those up tomorrow.
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We are about to enter July, we are way way below our average for June and these are our wet and wintry months, even when we get rain it is only a few millimeters not the inches we should be getting.
High winds today and that is drying things out even more.
In my opinion this is worse than last year.