No mobile access for two whole days? That’s because we were in such a magical spot we decided to stay there two nights! Lake Pamamaroo is about 160Km south east of Broken Hill. There is a huge lake system that has been built on the Darling River, Lake Pamamaroo being just one of them. Declared to be one of the reasons why we have so much water trouble on the Murray as the lakes take up a lot of the water meant to flow down the river. The water seems to be at a very high level and they must be sending a lot of it down river as the river is pretty full too.
We relaxed the whole day – the boys fishing (with bread for bait) and me doing some work (that’s right – drawing architecture models for my project with Andy) and reading a book. In the evening we went for a long walk to see the Main Weir on the Darling River where Alex had another go at feeding the fish with his bread bait. The views and the atmosphere were so relaxing we very reluctanty packed up camp and headed to Mildura.
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| Can a sunset be more magical? |
The road from the lake was very tough going and Paul was very tired. Dirt all the way to just a little bit out of Wetworth. Great glimpses of the river along the way. Honsetly, we could not have picked a better time for this trip. There are so many wildflowers along the roads and the farms that it is unbelivable that Australia looks like one big spring garden! We have taken so many great photos that we don't know what to do with all of them. I might have to put them all up on Facebook just to share them with all of you. I highly recommend this time of year for a driving holiday. We are so blessed to live in this country of such stark, but beautiful extremes.
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| Can you see the two colours? |
Wentworth - Stopped here very briefly. But a must do stop as this is the confluence of Australia's two greatest rivers - the Darling and Murray. There is a viewing platform that you must climb up to see the the merging of the rivers. The slit laden Darling (light beige colur) and the clearer water of the Murray can be clearly seen on either side, till the two waters become one - then it all gets light beige in colour. Very pretty spot - but we wanted to get to Mildura quickly to settle down for the night.
Stopped along the way to buy some Oranges and Butternut pumpkins. We bought about 10kg of Oranges for an almighty $6 and 10kg of Pumpkins for $5. So it's pumkin for lunch and dinner for the next few nights - how many ways can you cook pumpkin. Anyone know the Gujarati recipe for that yummy pumpkin dish they make?
Don't know what tomorrow brings - only new adventure - Paul is reading the weather reports and it appears we might be in for some rain - I hope it doesn't rain on my birthday though :-()
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| Wildflowers by the side of the road |
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