Google says that it takes 2hr 40min to drive from Mildura VIC to Morgan SA, so how come it took me a week? Firstly, my last couple of days in Victoria were a bit torrid! I had the RACV pull Bertha out of a bog, I sent Bertha away on a truck to have her tank flushed out (yes, I drove her into the bog one day and put petrol into her diesel tank the next), which meant that I end up walking a long distance across Mildura to make my Double Vax appointment. I didn’t leave town til after dark and so spent night 108 down a track near Lake Cullulleraine (A), where it was very quiet and I slept very late. The next day I crossed into South Australia at Yamba (B) and spent nights 109&110 resting beside the river at the lovely Riverbend Caravan Park just before Renmark (C). When I left I had a quick squizzy at Renmark, a town I had heard of and which has a beautiful river frontage. Secondly, the Riverland area, where the Murray-Darling meanders full of water due west, until it suddenly takes a right-angled turn due south, is a delightful area. There is always the river and its billabongs, there is a lot of irrigated farming (rows of fruit trees and grape vines are now so familiar) as well as many tourist attractions which I ignored. There are frequent small towns, established with solid public buildings and wide streets in the 19th Century, that show signs of prosperity and population expansion. On the same day that I looked at Renmark I paid quick visits to Berri, Loxton, Kingston-on-Murray, Waikerie and Ramco, before spending nights 111-114 close to the river near the Ramco Apex Park. Eventually I crossed the river by ferry at Morgan and spent half a day there before driving away from the river gums onto the dry salt bush plain.
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