The footlocker-size ice cubes are plucked from the water by crane and fitted into the walk-in palace on the shore.

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Amid gnarled tea trees, visitors glimpse the nesting sites of ibis, spoonbills and, if they are lucky, magnificent brolgas, a water bird larger than a crane.

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But you can use the water to to hit balloons and the occasional paddlewheel to lower a bridge or rotate a crane.

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