Today was a day was a day.
It started well I did my morning walk from the van around the nearby streets, but they were pretty ordinary. So I went back to the van had breakfast, did chores and headed into town. First stop, after a few false starts and enquiries was the hardware shop to get my gas cylinder refilled. My fridge, I guess together with my cooking (I am not using the hot water system choosing to have refreshing cold showers) is using one cylinder per week. The cylinders are what used to be 4.5kg and are now 3.7kg which is what you get when you do an exchange, but you get more when you get the cylinder refilled. So that is what I will be doing from now on.
Anyway while that was happening and after I picked it up I had a good look around Tailem Bend. I looked at a few spots along the river and found some houses, a couple anyway, down extremely steep driveways right on the river bank. Then I took off, giving my navigator a second chance which he blew and sent me on a track a long way from the river. So I swapped him for the lady, there is only 2 on my unit, retraced my steps and took a road closer to the river.
The approach into Murray Bridge is spectacular over the bridge which is huge and very old and obviously quite safe as it carries a lot of traffic, admittedly at 40kph. Then to the visitor centre where I got a map showing the roads along the river. The rest of the day was spent trying to drive along the river or sort of doing that with lots of turning backs and taking wrong roads. But it was interesting and I did get to have lunch on the river bank.
Now this river is a bit like the Yarra in that it is not clear blue like our WA rivers. The water seems to have a greenish tinge, quite a nice colour in fact. It is not hugely wide and splits in lots of places to multiple channels. There are also lots of car ferries that pull themselves across and back via cables and if they are all like this one where I am tonight, free.
I have not covered much of the length of the river today, but that is okay because hopefully I have learned what to do in future. Today I am in a free camp on the river bank with about 12 other campers after taking the ferry to bring the van across. It is very pleasant and I think that I need a break so plan to stay put tomorrow.
One thing, it appears that Google is closing down google+ and that you can no longer post comments on the blog. So comments will have to be by email, thanks or by message on my phone.
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It started well I did my morning walk from the van around the nearby streets, but they were pretty ordinary. So I went back to the van had breakfast, did chores and headed into town. First stop, after a few false starts and enquiries was the hardware shop to get my gas cylinder refilled. My fridge, I guess together with my cooking (I am not using the hot water system choosing to have refreshing cold showers) is using one cylinder per week. The cylinders are what used to be 4.5kg and are now 3.7kg which is what you get when you do an exchange, but you get more when you get the cylinder refilled. So that is what I will be doing from now on.
Anyway while that was happening and after I picked it up I had a good look around Tailem Bend. I looked at a few spots along the river and found some houses, a couple anyway, down extremely steep driveways right on the river bank. Then I took off, giving my navigator a second chance which he blew and sent me on a track a long way from the river. So I swapped him for the lady, there is only 2 on my unit, retraced my steps and took a road closer to the river.
The approach into Murray Bridge is spectacular over the bridge which is huge and very old and obviously quite safe as it carries a lot of traffic, admittedly at 40kph. Then to the visitor centre where I got a map showing the roads along the river. The rest of the day was spent trying to drive along the river or sort of doing that with lots of turning backs and taking wrong roads. But it was interesting and I did get to have lunch on the river bank.
Now this river is a bit like the Yarra in that it is not clear blue like our WA rivers. The water seems to have a greenish tinge, quite a nice colour in fact. It is not hugely wide and splits in lots of places to multiple channels. There are also lots of car ferries that pull themselves across and back via cables and if they are all like this one where I am tonight, free.
I have not covered much of the length of the river today, but that is okay because hopefully I have learned what to do in future. Today I am in a free camp on the river bank with about 12 other campers after taking the ferry to bring the van across. It is very pleasant and I think that I need a break so plan to stay put tomorrow.
One thing, it appears that Google is closing down google+ and that you can no longer post comments on the blog. So comments will have to be by email, thanks or by message on my phone.
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