TheRamblingWombat A Ramble Around Australia, Adelaide to Canberra

R & R at a Winery – Milawa – Days 320 – 321

On leaving Echuca our plan was to go to Yarrawonga and enjoy a couple of days at a free camp on the banks of the Murray River where it ceases to be navigable, some 1,986 kilometres from its mouth at Goolwa, in South Australia. From there we hoped to spend a night or two at Ludlows Reserve by Lake Hume, not far from the larger regional towns of Albury and Wodonga which straddle the New South Wales / Victoria border. Unfortunately, as has been the case a number of times on this trip flooding has caused problems for us again. Camps along the Murray River near Yarrawonga were closed due to flooding earlier in the year and, due to recent and forecast rain in the area, we were concerned that the camping area at Ludlows Reserve might be too wet and we would get bogged – something we really didn’t want to, or need to, risk. We needed another plan.

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TheRamblingWombat A Ramble Around Australia, Adelaide to Canberra

A drive around The Kerang Lakes – Day 312

Between Kerang and Lake Boga (about 40 kilometres north of Kerang) lie over fifty lakes of varying size, some with water, some dry. Collectively the lakes are referred to as The Kerang Lakes and today we visited a small number of the more accessible and thus more popular of these lakes.

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