Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
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Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby slowrider » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:19 pm
I would like to try and stay off the main roads as much as possible and I was looking at traveling along the old Mail Coach road between Mildura and Renmark.
Any information would be helpful; I will be using either my touring bike or mountain bike. I'm planning to travel around the end of Easter 2013.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby GJ_Coop » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:31 pm
It's all dirt from Wentworth until you get to the orcharding areas that start about 30km out of Renmark.
Takes two days and you can stay at Rufus River where there is a free campsite but no facilities other than water.
I found it a pretty good ride although there are some short soft areas from memory. It's better on a mountain bike I reckon, fatter tyres for the dirt.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby J Quinton » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:39 pm
Just wanted to say, I've been reading through your tour journals on your web site. I like your style very much. Your positive attitude is refreshing. Thank you.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:32 am
Only trick is that there's absolutely no services between Merbein and Renmark if you go this way - Lindsay Point is just a place. There are people who can help if you do get into trouble located at Neds Corner and Lock 9 but there's not much else. However, touring along the Murray around Easter is certainly going to be busy so there'll be plenty of people around the place. Worst comes to worse you could ride out to Lake Cululleraine.
Touring bike with 35c tyres (if it can manage them) will do this area fine. My cross bike with 700x35c Racing Ralphs deals with most of the surfaces this area and its roads throws at it - similar sized Marathons would have few dramas.
By the by...you can actually travel directly along the river from Robinvale to Mildura too. There's quite a few good tracks and between Wemen and Colignan through the Hattah-Kulkyne Parks there's a formed trail system. After Colignan it is back on to an informal trail network but it is certainly doable.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby slowrider » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:32 am
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby WestcoastPete » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:35 pm
Sounds like a great trip!
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby WestcoastPete » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:55 pm
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Goolwa to Jindabyne following the Murray
Postby GJ_Coop » Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:19 pm
There's now an excellent old school, ie, paper, map that's been produced called Murray River & Mallee South Australia by Carto Graphics at a scale of 1:350,000 with it all in sections at 1:150,000 showing every dirt road and the names of the roads, ferry, etc.
It'd just be terrific if the information didn't stop at the state borders. It's a problem with most of the maps I've looked at which are bigger scale without the same depth of info on them. And the Vic ones don't show much of NSW and vice versa.
There's some issues with working out the tracks through the state forests, ie, around Barham, Barmah and Cohuna although there are some Rooftop maps at about $12 each.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby rifraf » Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:59 pm
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Re: Goolwa to Jindabyne following the Murray
Postby WarrenH » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:31 pm
Possibly solved on the New South Wales side of the Murray with ... http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Go to BASEMAP top right, and strip off the satellite image from the topo. SIX Map is the new map replacing the slower 1:100,000 scale SIX Lite and replaces the even slower but highly detailed NSW Geospatial Portal map. If you have used SIX Lite or Geospatial Portal in the past, you'll appreciate the speed of SIX Map.GJ_Coop wrote:There's some issues with working out the tracks through the state forests, ie, around Barham, Barmah and Cohuna ...
A couple of examples from SIX Map.
SIX Map has tools for planning a route.
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Re: Goolwa to Jindabyne following the Murray
Postby WarrenH » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:31 pm
Warren.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby slowrider » Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:53 pm
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Re: Goolwa to Jindabyne following the Murray
Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:11 pm
Try this little site...GJ_Coop wrote:There's some issues with working out the tracks through the state forests, ie, around Barham, Barmah and Cohuna
http://mapshare2.dse.vic.gov.au/MapShar ... p?site=pam" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby GJ_Coop » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:17 pm
Thanks for that.
It's funny how each state pretends they are their own little island, isn't this one country?
At the risk of starting an all out war the NSW site is easier to use than the Vics.
Roll on NZ.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby clackers » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:28 pm
I'd hope so - the Murray lies within NSW!GJ_Coop wrote:
At the risk of starting an all out war the NSW site is easier to use than the Vics.
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Re: Echua to Murray Bridge following the Murray
Postby WarrenH » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:56 pm
They don't just pretend. The States and Territories are their own little islands. Land management, administration, regulations and infrastructure is not administered by the Nation, but by the States.GJ_Coop wrote:It's funny how each state pretends they are their own little island ...
Take for example National Parks ... there is nothing National about them at all. They are only State administered Parks and Reserves.
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