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Lake and Eyre
The rebuilt car was completed, with minor modifications, in 1962 and, by the end of the year, was shipped to Australia for a new attempt at Lake Eyre in 1963.
The Lake Eyre location was chosen as it offered of dried salt lake, where rain had not fallen in the previous 20 years, and the surface of the track was as hard as concrete.
Campbell and his team returned to Lake Eyre in 1964, but the surface never returned to the promise it had held in 1962 and Campbell had to battle with CN7 to reach record speeds ( over ).
Campbell's speed on his final Lake Eyre run remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001 ; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her potential only partly realised.
Lake Eyre during rainy season.
Lake Eyre South.
Lake Eyre salt crust.
Lake Eyre from a plane showing pink colouration from algae.
Lake Eyre () is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately ( AHD ) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world.
It is the focal point of the vast Lake Eyre Basin and is found in South Australia, some north of Adelaide.
The traditional owners of the lake, the Arabuna, are seeking to restore the lake's traditional name, Kati Thanda, and to ban boating on the lake ( effectively closing The Lake Eyre Yacht Club ).
Lake Eyre is located in the deserts of central Australia, in northern South Australia.
The Lake Eyre Basin is a large endorheic system surrounding the lakebed, the lowest part of which is filled with the characteristic salt pan caused by the seasonal expansion and subsequent evaporation of the trapped waters.
Even in the dry season there is usually some water remaining in Lake Eyre, normally collecting in a number of smaller sub-lakes within its margins.
During the rainy season the rivers from the north-east part of the Lake Eyre Basin ( in outback ( south-west and central ) Queensland ) flow towards the lake through the Channel Country.
The-15 m altitude usually attributed to Lake Eyre refers to the deepest parts of the lake floor, in Belt Bay and the Madigan Gulf.
Local rain can also fill Lake Eyre to 3 – 4 m ( 10 – 13 ft ) as occurred in 1984 and 1989.
When recently flooded the lake is almost fresh and native fresh water fish, including bony bream ( Nematolosa erebi ), the Lake Eyre Basin sub-species of golden perch ( Macquaria ambigua ) and various small hardyhead species ( Craterocephalus spp.
The 2009 Lake Eyre flood peaked at deep in late May which is a quarter of its maximum recorded depth of.
As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.
The high rainfall in summer sent flood water into the Diamantina, Georgina and Cooper Creek catchments of the Lake Eyre basin, with the Cooper Creek reaching the lake for the first time since 1990.
A number of Trailer Sailers sailed on Lake Eyre in 1975, 1976 and 1984 when the flood depth reached 3 – 6 m ( 10 – 20 ft ).
The Cooper had reached Lake Eyre for the first time since 1990.
The commodore of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club has stated that sailing during this time has the appearance of sailing in the sky.

Lake and Yacht
In July 2010 The Yacht Club held its first regatta since 1976 and its first on Lake Killamperpunna, a freshwater lake on Cooper Creek.
* Lake Eyre Yacht Club website
The Harbor Island Yacht Club makes its headquarters on Old Hickory Lake, and Percy Priest Lake is home to the Vanderbilt Sailing Club.
* In one 6-episode story arc of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Bullwinkle finds the " Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam " in the town of Frostbite Falls ( on the shores of Veronica Lake, no less ).
Bexley Council run a library at Binsey Walk near Southmere Lake, and sailing and canoeing are run at Southmere Lake in Thamesmead South by Southmere Boating Centre ( with Greenwich Yacht Club ) and sailing only by the YMCA in association with Erith Yacht Club.
* White Lake Yacht Club
In 2003, the White Lake Yacht Club published ' Looking aft: a history of the White Lake Yacht Club
* Grand Lake Yacht Club
* Brockport Yacht Club -- Located on the South Shore of Lake Ontario, near the mouth of Sandy Creek, it is primarily a sailing club.
Oneida Lake taken from the Yacht Club in Cicero.
* Lake Geneva Yacht Club
* Lake Geneva Yacht Club
The city, which is entirely residential, is the location of the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club on Lake Saint Clair.
Lake of the woods is also home to the Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club.

Lake and Club
Called the Orchard Lake Curling Club, the club used hickory block " stones ".
Michigan State University Sailing Club and the Lansing Sailing Club are located on Lake Lansing, where sailing regattas are hosted throughout the summer.
* A Chinese text of this year records that Hangzhou City, the capital of the Song Dynasty, held various social clubs that included a West Lake Poetry Club, the Buddhist Tea Society, the Physical Fitness Club, the Anglers ' Club, the Occult Club, the Young Girls ' Chorus, the Exotic Foods Club, the Plants and Fruits Club, the Antique Collectors ' Club, the Horse-Lovers ' Club, and the Refined Music Society.
* Lake Hills Country Club, Seoul, Korea, 1996
* West Texas Big Fish ( also the Big Lake, Texas Baseball Club )
* Belmont Golf Club, Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia
One of the land developers benefiting from sales by OI & S was Paul Murphy, whose Oswego Lake Country Club helped promote the new city as a place to " live where you play.
The private Oswego Lake Country Club and neighboring equestrian riding club add to the recreational amenities of the city.

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