Today we continue our journey along the Murray River. We are heading to Barmah National Park this park (70,000 acres), together with the adjoining Millewa forest (102,000 acres) in New South Wales, forms the largest River Red Gum forest in the world.

Due to the recent rains and water release down the Murray many of the roads into and through the park were closed. The camp grounds were still open though but unfortunately the HEMA let us down, it insisted on taking us through numerous dirt farm roads to the back entrance of the park and when we arrived at that entrance it was closed. The GPS didn’t have an alternative entrance. We ended up going back to small town of Barwah and following a road that headed in the general direction of the campground and eventually found the campground. It turned out that the GPS didn’t have any connection from this particular road to the campground. We had one whole section of the campground to ourselves and there was plenty of firewood to get a nice warm fire going.

Campsite at Barmah National Park

Campfire at Barmah National Park