Monday, 18 January 2016

Sat, 16th Jan, 2016 Plush’s Bend, Renmark, SA (Paringa Bridge)


17 months on the road. 7.30am 20 degrees and lovely sunshine but the wind is back making it a little chilly first up.

Drove across the Paringa Bridge to the Bert Dix Memorial Park to watch the bridge lift for the boats to pass under it at 9.30am.

Hundreds of corellas here making a racket. Obviously the explosion noises are keeping them off the crops as they are all here. You wouldn’t want to suffer from a nervous condition from war as the sound is like gunshots going off and in the quiet of the morning it can be unnerving.

The man is in the little cage ready to lower the boom gates on the road then raise the bridge.



The ski boats just zoom under the other section.

I videoed the bridge going up then the lovely glass houseboat ‘Drift’ going under it.

A couple more came through.


Then he lowered it.




Nearly down.

Lovely willows in the park.

Boom gates back up and we head back over again.

Stopped at the Caravan Shop looking for bigger vents for the fridge. Lovely lady, very helpful.

Back to the van to do the washing and Steve checked the caravan brakes and replaced a leaking plug in the truck tyre (a puncture we had at Strahan, Tassie). Good breeze drying the clothes. Perfect temp today, 30 degrees.

A few fisherman and water skiers zooming by. No luck with the fishing – only one little carp and no pelican to feed.

Very still and a bit warmer 31.7 degrees at 8.30pm. Nice and quiet on the river.






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