The Murray in Vic

Now I will try not to whinge and complain too much but the Bloody Vics are still open channel irrigating their crops. Echuca is a big town and we pick up some supplies and head off to Torrumbarry Weir. They are letting some water through and we find a camp spot on the river just up stream.

We set up camp and make a fire our first one since Tassie. We haven’t really needed fires in QLD. Tina cooks a beautiful Roast in the camp oven and we are quite happy to be on the river again. Tina really loves the river and I suppose I do to, but I really want to get up to North QLD.
The sun takes quite a while to heat up but we finally get up and we have shrimp. So I’m online and get a fishing license, the water is probably to cold to catch fish but we will give it a go anyway. An afternoon canoe on the Murray in Vic is new for us and the river is quite different to the Murray in SA with much smaller banks. Another fire and cold night.


A chilly morning with the sun really struggling to have much impact. We pack up and get ready to move on but the car wouldn’t start and the battery is flat. Tina walks of to a camp site up the river but the man is out in his boat fishing. We then walk back to the weir and run into one of the water department workers. He gladly gives us a lift back to the car and a jumpstart. The crap leads I have will not start up the Tojo even after letting then charge for a while. We have a great chat and it is information form the source this is his job so he knows a bit about it. Unfortunately it is gloom and doom unless we get rain. Lake Hume is 8%. He drives back to the workshop and brings back some real jumper leads and the Tojo starts no problems.
We are going to drive to Koondrook along the river so off we go. They have had 50m through here about 7-10 days ago so there is plenty of great 4WD driving to be had. It is 75km of free camping winding along the Murray River with tracks everywhere. 1 week ago and this would have been serious fun. We drive to Swan Hill and a Caravan Park for a bit of a clean up and anyway Melbourne were playing in the AFL against Essendon, No luck for Melbourne, but a quite chilly night along the river again and a cheeky baby Possum trying to get friendly.