Trudging the Murrumbidgee
Trudging the Murrumbidgee (NSW)
If there is one thing I learnt from this trip it is that although spur-of-the-moment trips and random adventures are great, the best even, sometimes it helps to plan. Even just a little bit.
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In our case hindsight was our chosen method of planning. Well when I say planning, a friend and I had been working on a farm in Adjungbilly and a few times a week we drove across the Murrumbidgee River and the farm owner had always mentioned that you can kayak down it. One free sunny Saturday we decided to give it a go, loading up the kayaks in a trailer and taking two cars with us. We left one at the bridge that we usually crossed and then picked a spot about 15km up the river where the road came close and we could access the water.
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Off we went, dropped the car off and before we knew it we were in the water drifting down river with the sound of birds in the air and the occasional moo from a curious stander-by on the banks.
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Now this is where the planning comes in. The Murrumbidgee’s flow is controlled by a dam upstream, and they change the flow dependant on rainfall and fullness of the dam. It just so happened that today was a day of low flow. When I say low flow I mean low flow. An afternoon of kayaking was what we were after. An afternoon of dragging our boats across sandbanks and over rough trees is what we got.
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Beautiful day and location, just not the workout we needed or desired!
