Month: September 2015
National Wool Museum – Geelong
In the 1950’s, Australia was said to ‘be riding on the sheep’s back’. Wool was then one of our principal exports and the landed gentry who owned and ran vast sheep stations were wealthy and life for them was good. That’s all changed now, but those glory days are recreated at the National Wool Museum […]
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Mypolonga
We finished our Proud Mary river boat trip last Friday, but not before we visited the tiny town of Mypolonga. This little settlement on the bank of the lower Murray River. has a population of only about 300 people. It was surveyed in 1915 and its name comes from an Aboriginal name meaning Cliff Lookout […]
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Cruising on the Murray
For the last few days, we have been cruising upstream to the town of Blanchtown and now we heading back down the river to Murray Bridge. It’s a very peaceful life, but at times it does get a bit boring. The river is about 150 metres wide but very slow – flowing at only about […]
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Mannum and Wombats
Our boat had moved a few kilometres upstream from where we joined it at Murray Bridge and on this our first day on the river we awoke to find ourselves moored by a nice quiet park at Woodlane. I’m a bit surprised at just how many timy settlements there are along the river. Some were […]
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Adelaide – A Long Day of Filling in Time
We were up at 6.00 am yesterday to head off to Murray Bridge via Adelaide with my Probus Club on a five day trip along the Murray River on the riverboat ‘Proud Mary’. We checked in early for our 10.00 am flight that left on time and arrived in Adelaide at 11.30 am. We were […]
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