South Australia

Renmark SA

We are staying right on the river and have a great view of the historic Painga Bridge which opens twice a day to allow the house boats to travel up and down the Murray River.

Viewed from the caravan park

Once again this area of the river is a paradise for tourism and house boats. We imagine this would be a very busy place to be during the warmer months and school holidays.

A lovely walk took us along the wharf past some interesting attractions like this outrageous house boat or is it a pirate ship?

 

madness or cleverness

Friendly man loving the passing tourists

 

We past an old Anglican church with called St Augustine of Hippo, I wonder who he or she was and what they did to be canonised. And where is Hippo?

This man, David Ruston is famous for his roses and now Renmark is famous for its rose festival in October. This sculpture of him is in a beautiful garden setting by the river.

We drove out to Berri and again loved the beautiful Murray River setting of the village. Back in the day this too\ would have been a bustling commercial port.

"I don't know what it is, but it's green"

Oh...

I couldn't resist taking a pic of this BIG Orange on the way back. The attraction is now closed and neglected.

 

Sort of looks like a big round racing car

 

Painga SA

Driving across the bridge we discovered another township and lots of fairly new looking houses. We saw gorgeous views of the Murray Basin/ Catchment and then saw this majestic river and its red cliffs at the Heading Lookout.

Murray Catchment

Amazing view from the Heading Lookout

Continuing along the river we found the Woolshed Brewery, Homestead and the original cottage.

Original Homestead

This must have been a luxury

"New house" is close by

It was lovely wandering around the property and brewery, tasting what was on offer...we had the “Hard Lemonade” which looked and tasted a lot like a soft drink but at 8.5% alcohol was definitely more hard than soft.

 

 

Its been great to have a day here to relax, we are off again in the morning travelling southward to Bordertown and Penola. We will still be in South Australia for a few days yet.

Loxton SA

This township was fairly large and spread out, and very obviously a wine town. There are huge vineyards all around and an enormous winery.

Large Winery

Lots of drinks here

Loxton

Huge vineyards

Pinnaroo SA

 

A tiny settlement with gorgeous old buildings which was deserted on this Sunday. It almost looked like an old time theme park. We were fortunate enough to stop right beside a park filled with amazing flowering gum trees.

 

Stunning place

There they are, my darlings under the trees

 

We pushed on toward Bordertown along a long road which has the Ngarkat Conservation Park on one side and the Big Desert Wilderness Park on the other side. We were in our element and loved watching the changing scenery, we enjoyed that 1 ½ hour drive.

Bordertown SA

We found the caravan park, booked in and then discovered that we are right beside the main highway going to Adelaide. Oh well its only for 1 night.

Bordertown looks like a nice little place that has a local theatre and arts culture.

 

 

Oh Bob Hawke's house is also here...not to be missed!....oops, sorry we missed it.

 

We are going to Penola tomorrow and will probably stay there for 2 days.