Experts are hopeful that Lake Eyre in South Australia, like last year, might be flooded again, which means that tourists may flock the area in the next few months to see the lake getting transformed.

Professor Richard Kingsford from the University of New South Wales, talking to ABC's Chrissy Arthur, said that rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin and the northern part of the Murray-Darling are all flooding.

He was hopeful that for the first time since 1990, there could be an adequate amount of water in the Cooper Creek system which could reach Lake Eyre.

Last year, water flowed into Lake Eyre from the Georgina-Diamantina River system. Prof. Kingsford says that though the lake did not fill completely, there was sufficient water to attract tourists and even water birds.

According to Kingsford, floodwaters from the Georgina-Diamantina system have already touched Lake Eyre.

“So there's water currently coming down the Diamantina. And in fact, there's a little bit of water just making its way down the Warburton Groove into Lake Eyre as we speak”, he said.