A hot start to the night with a few spits of rain early in the morning. I don't like that feeling of fine spray hitting you as the drops come through the fly mesh. You always think is it rain or a possum having a leak. So up I got to put the fly on for precaution.
A nice morning and on the river again at sunrise. Today we hit South Australia. First stop is the NSW and SA boarder on the right side of the river and then after another couple of hours we hit the Vic and SA boarder on the left side of the river. The Victorian surveyor got it wrong and stole land from SA. Despite attempts to fix it over the years, it still remains.
We have been looking forward to the customs house shop for days. The old customs house is now used as a private residence and to run a house boat business. They have s small store so we had morning tea of ice cream, bags of chips, and soft drink. It went down quick. We also replenished our water supplies as we were down to river water.
Whilst at the customs house we run into a couple of paddlers who are doing the boarder to sea over a number of long weekends. We will see these guys a bit over the next two days. They contacted us last weekend via the blog.
Next stop is lock 6. This is very welcome as the current we had yesterday disappeared early today and we are again on a lake. After the lock we get a current back for a while. We pass through some very arid country and the pleasure we have today is again in the red cliffs we bump into. It looks like the cliffs are all part of one long fault line and the cliffs are formed when the river bumps into the fault and can't get past. It is now very hot and again it must be well above 40.
We go past a few milestones, at 619 we have paddled 1800km since Bringenbrong and at 598km we are 1600km from Albury.
We stop late in the afternoon at a great sand bar opposite one of those red cliffs. The water is cool and quite clear. It is like heaven after last night's campsite. The best we have had so far.
After swimming, chatting to the houseboat renters and eating we hit the hay.
Sunrise on the water. You never get sick of it.
Some of the red cliffs we see on the way.
Our campsite on the beach opposite the cliffs.
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