An interrupted nights sleep for must due to the local visitors and the humidity. We are up a bit earlier for a nice breakfast on the beach. The sunrise is again magnificent with colours changing on the clouds from deep red to orange and yellows. This will be one of the last sunrises that we will see on the river. The sun finally cracks the horizon as we saddle up at 7:20am.
The morning is still a bit humid and with a light northerly breeze behind us it is quite warm on the water. Our first objective is morning tea at Mannum. The river is now very wide and Thomo measured it at 440m wide.
We pass more shack towns before we get to Mannum at 9:30am. This town is another jewel and I will be back in the future for a good look and to dig into the history of the area a bit more. The bakery is a cracker and we again fill up on pies and flavoured milk.
Back on to the water again for our next objective of Murray Bridge. We are now coming out of cliff country and more agriculture is evident. Some areas are still very dry and baron. Each side of the river now has swamps and back waters. We stop at Mypolonga for lunch on the ski beach.
The wind has increased and there are rain storms about. It is now very humid. We are lucky that the wind is behind us for about 80% of the time as this makes for a fast afternoon. We get to Murray Bridge at 4:30pm and look for the caravan park.
Judy, Judy and Noel are there to greet us. It is good to see some familiar faces. Even better was that Judy and Noel have organised a BBQ dinner for us all. Thanks alot guys, it went down a treat.
It is raining a bit tonight so the tent is all closed up and quite hot. There are also two guys opposite drinking and trying to sort their lives out. Oh joy.
Sunrise from the boat.
The wide flat river in the morning.
Last of the cliff country and the storms starting to form.
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