Red Algae on the Murray
River has become less meadander-y and wider!
Dirk disembarking at Moorook (see general store in background)
greiving kangaroo (Dirk said he saw a dead one nearby): wanted to take this one with me.
On Day 50, we left Loxton (a pleasant enough town where I had a fantastic whole wheat pastie with feta, spinach, ginger and pumpkin - important as meat pies are more de rigeur). Unlike most of the prior 1000+ kms, the road ahead is filled with small towns... and this slows progress a little, but makes it enjoyable as we can look forward to... a diet coke, a beer or an icecream! (all highly nutritious of course). The towns of Day 51 were Moorok and Kingston on Murray, both towns of about 250 people (give or take a few). As you can see from the photo, there is easy access to the waterfront and the general stores are close by. We had lunch at Moorok.
Although both of these towns were extremely small, they would have been important back in the days of the paddle steamers as they were prime stopping points. In addition to the towns, we also saw lots of kangaroos, some wild goats with big horns and passed through Lock 3. As seems to be typical after a lock, there was a lot of flooding and it was hard to find a campsite. In any case, we paddled 42 km and caped at 426 river marker.
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