I went to Mildura to spend 3 days catching up with a friend, not travelling. Whilst there I made an appointment for another Covid shot and a fluvax, which meant that I had a whole week to fill after she left. I wanted to see another confluence, where the Murrumbidgee merges with the Murray. This is upstream from Wentworth and Mildura, but I wasn’t sure of the best way to access it. I made what turned out to be the bad choice of going to the NSW side first; this meant that by the time I reached the Victorian side it was raining and the access track was inaccessible. However we still got bogged in a residential street and I had to call the RACV to pull Bertha back into action. The inevitable third setback came the next day, when I inadvertently put petrol into her diesel tank. She spent the day getting flushed out while I got jabbed, drank Italian coffee, ate Malaysian nasi lemak, and walked a long distance around town. I spent nights 101&102 at Psyche Pumps VIC (A) which was wet and well vegetated, nights 103&104 on the edge of Lake Benanee NSW (B) in very arid country, night 105 in a car park in Balranald NSW (C), asphalt. I wasn’t able to camp near Murrumbidgee-Murray confluence (E), so for night 106 I went to Robinvale Riverside Caravan Park VIC (F) and for night 107 to Mildura-Buronga Discovery Park, in Burunga NSW (blue dot). The first slideshow is Mildura and the Victorian side of the river, and the second one Balranald and the NSW side, finishing with the Australian Inland Botanical Gardens, which we visited from Mildura. The alphabetical references in the previous paragraph are to the map beneath the slideshows.
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AuthorIn mid 2018 I started recording each night I sleep in Bertha: sometimes just for myself, sometimes to share with friends and other travellers. Archives
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