“A sunburnt Country” — “of droughts and flooding rains” So wrote Dorothea MacKellar in her 1908 inspirational poem — possibly no-where more applicable than it is to Western NSW. Almost two weeks after leaving Brewarrina on our Darling River run we prepared for the final leg down to Wentworth. Re-stocked with fuel and supplies in […]
Darling River Run—Brewarrina to Wentworth
“Where does the inland flowing NSW Macquarie River end – maybe an inland sea?” This question was posed by NSW Governor Sir Ralph Darling to Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume in 1828. Their expedition led to the discovery of the Bogan River. In an 1829 expedition these two explorers reached the Upper Darling. In 1835 […]
Freedom on the Murray
Looking across the Murray River from Curlwaa, six kilometres upstream of Wentworth, the riverbank is lined with campers. It was Easter, and these were free campers. There are many similar stretches of free camping available along the Murray: places where people can pitch a tent or park a van without paying, or signing a visitor’s […]