0 In Australia, a low area of ground that was part of a river in the past and that only fills up with water from the river during a flood. --
Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong.
It includes two semi-permanent freshwater billabongs.
In addition, the natural billabong (lake) at the center of the sanctuary is host to many visiting animals, some of which will breed and raise their young at the sanctuary.
For much of the time, however, the river does not flow, and becomes a line of billabongs.
However, they are still consistently found in low-level billabongs, living alongside the saltwater crocodiles near the tidal reaches of rivers.
They are often found in small creeks, as well as billabongs and the edges of larger rivers.
It is often found in billabongs, dams and lakes at various salinity levels and in the lower reaches of rivers and streams.
Previously the river and its associated billabongs had periodically dried back into a series of water holes.
