Sleeping Giant by alhak

Photography • Landscape • posted on Nov 20, 2007

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From the view platform and my last post, turn right to face the south west and dawn is breaking over the dam....it's 5-30am... This is the Burdekin Dam, largest in my state of Queensland, built 20 years ago and has a capacity five times more than Sydney Harbour. She covers an area of some 23,000 hectares and holds 1,860,000 mega litres when full. The spillway wall is 876 metres long with a drop of 37 metres. 630,000 cubic metres of concrete went into building the spillway with another 900,000 cubic metres of landfill around the edges....when she spills over at a rate of .5 metres, it equates to 20,000 mega litres per day....this is one huge place!

Comments (31)

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carrotsoup

12:04AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Massive and georgeous to.

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jparlay

12:04AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

beautifully done!

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amlondono

12:11AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Beautiful color , compo , well done ! Ana

MrsLubner

12:12AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Dams always bring a certain sadness to me. This is a beautiful view though and the golden sun is warm...

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auntietk

12:41AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

An impressive shot, and the light is gorgeous!

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stuart83

1:53AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Superb capture Sue, captured at the right time, excellent light

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mhyrdin

2:22AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Magnificent !

Liam.

2:32AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Fantastic colors and clarity. Great POV, too.

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lizzibell

2:35AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Beautiful...

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Kyms_Cave

2:50AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Makes me wish I had been at the dam at this time of the day when we were there reciently, did you get any shots from the bottom of the dam wall too, I had fun with my camera down there, hubby had to almost hog-tie me and drag me back into the car...such a beautiful place..have you found the Peacocks yet?? Lol..Kym

Valerie-Ducom

3:02AM | Wed, 21 November 2007

Very beautiful landscape and excellent color ! Good day :)

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