Barmera Loveday 4x4 ODESSEY August 2012
Day 5
Friday 31st August 2012
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| Sheryle cooking toast on the camp fire |
Sorry tried to send yesterday’s blog, bad weather conditions would not allow me to connect with my server.
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| Paddlewheeler on the Murray River |
A great day today starting off with a walk then sitting next to a nice warm fire at last! Whilst washing the dishes we heard this unusual noise like a dull drone, looking out of the door a paddlewheeller was passing on the river, this time we have photos, ye,. The need of gas, milk & eggs caused us to make a trip into Barmera, a very clean inviting little town on the banks of Lake Bonny with the friendliest people you could meet, for a moment I thought we were back in Perth.
On return we stopped at the Loveday Tavern to pay for our wood and had a chat with the owner Tony on how and why he started this 4x4 adventure and camping park (Google: lovedays 4x4 adventure park to get the full story) for the background history of this great camping/recreation location it is very interesting and we will be back.
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| The roots to this tree children can play in |
As the Murray River is running too fast for us to paddle our canoe, we walked about 2kl down the track to check out a creek Tony said may be suitable, unfortunately it needs a bit more water, the way the river is going it won’t be long though as currently the authorities are letting 40k mega litres of water into the river system daily and very shortly this will increase to 45k mega litres, it is fantastic to see the flood plains covered in water. Whilst walking we have been picking up rubbish left by previous campers most we can burn, bottles and cans we will recycle the rest will go into the bin, however, LADIES please take care of your own white tails, burn, bury, dispose as you wish, just do not leave them on the ground for the rest of the world to see where you have marked your spot…. This environment is too pristine to muck up by laziness.
Keep the shiny side up
John & Sheryle
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