May 3-9, 2016
Leaving the Mildura area we travelled along the Sturt Highway through Robinvale to the large Rest Area at Lake Bonamee. This is a great free camp area with lots of space, toilets, tables and shelters and access to the lake. It is close to the highway but there is not a lot of noise as it is above the level of the campsite.
From there we moved on through Balranald and a few kms off the highway to a great little free camp on the bank of the Murrumbidgee at the small community of Maude.
The Maude weir is a little upstream of the campground and the Maude bridge provides the only river crossing between Balranald and Hay.
We stayed here for two nights in great weather and then moved on via Hay (empty toilet, fill water as usual) and to the large free camp at Darlington Point.
This is a camping area combined between what is known as the Town Beach area and the Bunyip Hole Camp. Lots of room but dirt and gravel roads so when it rained during our second night here we decided to leave while we could!
Moving onward the rain continued so we headed into the Lake Talbot Tourist Park at Narrandera for a couple of nights, caught up on shopping and re-assessed due to the rain still falling.
As all the further free camps along the Murrumbidgee were on or accessed via dirt roads they would be impossible to get to so we headed direct to Bob’s at Gunning for our house sitting, arriving a few days early.