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The Murray River!

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Murray Hebblethwaite

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The Top Picture is a Scenic View of the Murray at Echuca, upstream from where the Darling connects.

The Darling River, which includes Darling Downs flows into the Murray then out to sea at Adelaide.
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The second picture depicts a Restored River Barge used in early days to cross the Murray, note the tow line!

The lower picture is the Restored Steam Engine Hut complete in working order, pulleys and all.
 
When the early Explorers/Settlers arrived in Australia, they did NOT have the correct Green Paint to colour the Gum Trees in their true colour!

The silvery hairs on the leaves give the leaves a Grey-Green as seen in the top picture. The colour you see is the true image of their forests.
 
Photo 1.These are the same kind of trees. Eucalypt Camaldulensis [river red gum].The one in the foreground is different but still eucalypt. locals call it yellow jack. This is where I usually cross the creek. I live 100 kilometers south of Echuca. the water you see in these photos will enter the Murray downstream of Echuca and hence to the sea.

Photo 2. note yellow from new growth.

I didn't realise the cartoon was still in the scanner.
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Not correct Murray. The second photo is a punt which was used in place of a bridge and was connected to a wire rope strung across the river. the tin shed part would be the engine house.

Barges were towed behind paddle steamers and were used to ferry supplies out to stations and the wool bales in to the rail sidings then eventually the world..These used to travel up the Darling also when water was plentiful.
 
Raining cats & dogs up here again Bendee. I might go out to the Condamine and chuck in a message in a bottle. Look out for it in a few months.
 
Now I am little wiser, if I am correct they also had a reconstructed paddle wheeler nearby. I am sure the others reading will also appreciate the correction.

The day I visited Echuca, they were holding slalom skiing using jet boats travelling at a high rate of speed.

I visited several farms in the area south to Bendigo. This area was very similar to where I live and felt right at home.

I also have friends in Blackwood, S.A.
 
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