A chill out day at Murray Bridge so we decided on heading to Hahndorf, Adelaide Hills. It wasn’t too far away but the day was very hot. Overall we had a great time just looking around Australia’s oldest surviving German settlement.
We changed our plans a bit by skipping Manum and heading straight to Murray Bridge but staying there for 2 nights. But his means that we had to travel 158 kms in a day. The day went well and was Read more…
We thought we had seen all the cliffs but more was to come with many surprises. Cockatoos were using the cliffs as hangouts under shade and holes in the cliffs as substitute tree hollows. They were a common sight at cliffs Read more…
We decided to purchase a tent for the remainder of our expedition and drove to a camping shop in Berri at 9am. They were very helpful and gave huge discounts on our new tent after learning of our plight and fundraiser.We then Read more…
Yesterday was a disaster for us and a setback to our plans. It was a hot and windy day at our site and in a distant we saw a white haze/cloud above the river. Within seconds, we were hit by Read more…
Some picture we took while we were in Renmark.
We met the Chookman of the Murray today, an eccentric character of Renmark/Paringa. He lives on a quirky home made house-boat named ‘Willitsinkorwontit’ with his chooks. Dianne was ‘invited’ to sing along with Chookman (Frank Turton), who was such a Read more…
We drove back to Border Cliffs to launch our boat and resume our journey on the Murray. The morning was chilly but calm so we took it easy and enjoyed the day on the Murray. We reached Lock 6 but Read more…
We set up our tent for a longer stay as this will be our base for the next 6 days at the BIG4 Renmark Riverfront Holiday Park. We needed this break as all of us were getting tired from daily Read more…
We had such a good sleep in the Murray Sunset National Park that we all work up a little late and had to rush so that we could get to Lock 7 (some 20kms away) on a predetermined time booked Read more…