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In this episode, we travel in our converted Ford transit campervan, to Barmah, Victoria Australia. This small town is located on the Murray River. We camped three nights for free at Barmah with my brother, Leigh, and his family and their dog. My brother’s family camped in their Jayco Expander Outback caravan.
We visited the following places and items of interest in this episode:
•Barmah
•Free camping
•Jayco expander outback
•Australian bulldog
•Barmah National Park
•Van Tour
•Camp cooking
•Archery
•Camping tips
•How to use a chainsaw
•4x4drive
•Murray river
Just as we drove to our free campsite on the first night it was raining. Unfortunately, we got bogged - but thankfully, my brother came to our rescue and hooked our ford transit campervan to his Mazda BT50 4x4 drive. We got pulled out of the mud, headed to our campsite, sat around a large fire, and enjoyed our night.
On our first free camping morning along the Murray River, we cooked egg and bacon muffins on a portable barbecue over the campfire. After breakfast, I toured Leigh and Kristen‘s Jayco Expander Outback caravan.
For lunch, Leigh cranked up his portable barbecue to cook some sausages and relit the campfire to cook medallion lamb chops. Adam and I brought some homemade salads for our family lunch. There’s nothing more relaxing than camp cooking in front of a fire and along the Murray River!
For a bit of fun, we all tried our hand at some archery by aiming for an old tree stump. You be the judge on how well we went!
For dinner, Leigh whipped up American Chilli which is slow-cooked over coals from our campfire. While dinner was cooking over the campfire, we set up a projector screen on the side of our converted Ford transit campervan. The American Chilli cooked in the camp oven turned out absolutely amazing - you could taste the campfire through the meal.
Make sure you stay tuned next week when Adam and I drive Leigh‘s Mazda BT50 4x4 drive through the thick of mud! We head into Barmah National Park in the search for wild brumby. As expected, we do plenty more camp cooking too. Leigh shows us how to use a splitter ax correctly and how to set up our electric Ryobi chainsaw for our first-time use.
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THE MURRAY RIVER
The Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains, then meanders northwest across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows into South Australia. From an east-west direction, it turns south at Morgan for its final 315 km (196 mi), reaching the eastern edge of Lake Alexandrina. The water then flows through several channels around Hindmarsh Island and Mundoo Island. There it is joined by lagoon water from The Coorong to the south-east before emptying into the Great Australian Bight (often referenced on Australian maps as the Southern Ocean) through the Murray Mouth, 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Goolwa South.[4] Despite discharging considerable volumes of water at times, particularly before the advent of large-scale river regulation, the waters at the Murray Mouth are almost invariably slow and shallow.