Easter 2012 – Day 15
David studied the maps & looked up on the internet, while we had breakfast, to check for road closures in the area. There were plenty in the area! Once we had decided where we were going to go today – we are very organised! we packed up and left Broken Hill at around 10am, it was already starting to get warm.
We travelled out towards the historical river port of Wentworth, sighting many Emus on the way but still no Kangaroos. We stopped at the Tourist information centre & got a few brochures & some local insight.
We checked out where the Murray & Darling rivers meet, you could see that the Darling was in flood as it was all murky, where the Murray was quite clean in comparison.There was a elevated platform which you could walk up to get a better view. And with the old gum trees offering many shaded picnic areas, quite a few people were there. We also saw a few small colourful parrots which looked similar to buggies.
We visited the Lock & Weir which is number 10 along the river system. David was explaining to Brendan about the different levels in the water & how the boats go into the lock area & the water drops so they can then continue on, unfortunately the river was in flood and the water level was all the same. Brendan was certainly getting an education – whether he remembers all this will be another thing !
We crossed over the Murray river once again, then stopped at Fotherby park – recommended by the TI centre, the toilets were locked & there was only 1 table available to picnic at and this was taken, you could see the old paddle steamer, but it was behind a mesh fence. This was definitely not a great area to have lunch, there may have been plenty of room to run around in but not for lunching! and we weren’t going to go back across to the other river area.
We arrived in Victoria once again this time at Mildura. We found the Big 4 camp ground at a reasonable hour for a change. We set up our home for the next 2 nights. Our site was looking over the pool area and were on a beautiful grassy spot, we had a lot of dirt/ dusty not so green grass areas previously…Once we were done with our chores we put our feet up & with a champagne & beer, as well as some cabanossi & cheese to relax, we watched while Brendan froze his little butt off in the pool – it was a hot day, but the water was cold.
We cooked our dinner in the camp kitchen, and cleaned up. After we ventured over to the local Woollies ( 5 min walk) and bought some ice cream for dessert.
An early night so we can have a good look around in the morning.
