13. Murray River and a Wedding

We continued travelling south with an overnight stop at Wentworth where the Darling and Murray Rivers meet.

Darling River meets the Murray River

Then it was back into our home state of South Australia where we stayed at the township of Renmark in the local caravan park, for a family gathering where Mary’s brother John was getting married to partner Cindy.

Renmark Big 4 Caravan Park

Most noteworthy for us was catching up with our son Timothy and Penny from Canberra who we hadn’t had a hug since December of the previous year. 

It was good to catch up with son Ashley (it was 5 months since our last hug) who drove overnight (780 kms) from Pt Lincoln, which included one kangaroo strike, luckily only resulting with some minor scrape marks to his vehicle.

 

Our family less one overseas

We thoroughly enjoyed catching up with Mary’s family and met some lovely new people. 

The wedding and the following function was held at a large rose producing centre, (Ruston’s Roses) in a beautiful setting.

Bride & Groom leaving for their honeymoon

Leaving the caravan park we travelled about 20 minutes down the road before turning down a side road where we found a nice quiet spot next to the Murray River and we participated in a power nap for a while. 

Then it was another 20 minutes down the road to catch up with one of our grooms men at the smallish community of Winkie. We chattered the night away with John & Kath. 

The ambient temperature was predicted to rise to about 36 C, so we left John’s home early in the morning and we were stopped for the day prior to lunch time near the township of Cadell in a magnificent setting alongside the Murray River. Graeme Claxton Reserve was a nicely grassed area on the water’s edge of the Murray with a camping area and fire places adjacent. There was an excellent flushing loo, rubbish bins and the area was lit up by flood lighting in the evening. There were two other caravans and a house boat utilizing this location overnight at no cost to any of us. It certainly had a “Wow,” factor for this location.

 

Cooling off in the Murray River