Hi from Mannum S A

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Hi
We are now at Mannum, Allen and Marijke flew in to Adelaide today, and we will begin our Murray cruise tomorrow.
We have enjoyed travelling for the last week beside the Murray River. There are some lovely spots here, and we have been in some great caravan parks beside the river. We take our wine and seats to the river edge about 5pm, and watch the sun go down. We have met some nice people. The temperatures have been all over the place, we had 35 degrees yesterday.
We saw our first snake on Friday. We were at Blanchetown , looking at Lock 1 and the lockmaster we were talking to spied a Brown Snake coming towards us on the lawn. He yelled at us, which was just as well as we hadn't seen it! It was very poisonous, so he killed it! It is very dry here, unless irrigation is in place. There are many vineyards, citrus and berry plantations, etc and some lovely rose gardens.
Again having trouble with the computer, so will publish this in two goes, will try the photos and map separate.
We are having a great time, loving every minute.
Cheers Lynne

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Photos

Renmark Caravan Park
We loved it so much here we booked in for another night.

Mildura
Paddlesteamer Melbourne coming into lock 11

Mildura Murray River
Exciting the lock

Mildura weir
Lock 11 weir

Birds fishing
Weir 11

Orange World
We went on a little train around the oranges, mainly Valencia and Navel oranges

A different orange
They had all sorts of different citrus to show us. This one was interesting.

Botanical Gardens - Mildura
This was the rose garden - they grow lots of roses in this area.

Yamba
We got stopped at the border and searched for fruit and vegetables - even went through the fridge! We were OK but the fine was $2000 if caught with any!

Rushtons Roses Renmark
The largest rose garden in Australia

Example of rose
They were beautiful

Rushtons also had cars!
Chris wasn't too hard done by at the rose garden!

Berri
We had a lovely tapa lunch at the Craggs creek winery at Berri

Renmark CP
What you do at 5pm

Joined by the birds
Lots of pelicans and ducks and seagulls here

Our view Renmark
This has been our favourite caravan park so far.

Tree of Knowledge
Showing height of floods at Loxton

Feeding kookaburras
at our camp at Loxton the man opposite us feed them at the power box

At Banrock Station winery
A huge complex with wetlands walks and conference facilities - we had a coffee and bought some wine

Our first snake experience!
Brown snake at Blanchetown Lock 1

Blanchetown
By Lock 1 with bridges behind. This was from our caravan park, again right beside the river Murray.

Ferry to Mannum
There are several ferry crossings in this area , all free, to cross Murray. They go across on cables.

Comments

[Linda and Den]

WOW!
Your photos are fabulous Lynne. Never realised there were so many locks and weirs there. EEEk! the snake would have freaked me out! Rose gardens look lovely. Certainly looks dry but a lovely area. Maybe we could sell them some rain or do a trade for sunshine! Have fun!