I guess today was the most boring drive of the trip. We left the Murray region and tracked further the the Murrmbidgee River area. This is the part of the world where i spent the first 8 years of my life. The Murrumbidgee River is not as scenic a river as the Murray. It runs through a "channel country" of small rivers that run only in the wet, and the area is referred to the "riverina". The Murrumbidgee River is not one where there were nice parks on its banks. Instead there was low laying muddy forested areas referred to as "overflows" along the banks, those of you who know the Poem "Clancy of the Overflow", it was that kind of country the poet was reffering to. I must admit, as we went through the irrigation areas, it was mile after mile after mile of grapevines! Unbelievable. Not wonder we have a wine glut in Australia! We went past the gate of the de Bortoli winery where my parents bought their first bottles of wine in the early 1960's, the same winery we purchased a bottle for my dad in the yarra Valley a week ago!
We camped in the heat at griffith. We did not bother with putting the fly on the tent, just erected the innards and used it as an overgrown mozzie net. The circadas were amazingly noisy! My dogs had fun catching them and eating them! Ihope I don't have dogs with stomach upsets from them!
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