Darlington Point

We headed out of Narrandera a couple of days ago and meandered along the northern shore of the river looking for campsites. The Landrover Club ACT has a CD with campsites around the country and we have been documenting some, the ones we can find, as we travel down the Murrumbidgee. The MIA State Forest runs along the northern shore and has many places to camp. The river often has sandy beaches, most sites are good but no facilities, though at this time one can light fires. Usually they are too shady for us, as generally the days are around 15 degrees, sun is good, as is a fire. We stayed overnight at Gogeldrie Weir and continued to Darlington Point the next day. We were on very muddy slippery roads and the Landcruiser is covered in mud. We leave litle piles of mud -Christian scraps off the mudguards- at the campsites.
Today we were planning to paddle until I found a mouse in the car, have you heard that the farmers now have a mouse plague to deal with, so we totally emptied out the car and treated it with peppermint oil - the locals say it stops all critters, lets hope so. We have seen a couple of mice and they are very cute, tiny little things.
Tomorrow we will head out towards Hay, there are more State Forests along the river bank to check and hopefully find a nice sunny one to stay in.
Tomorrow will also be the start of our third week, only 606k of river to go.