12th October 2014
Another lovely day and this time we got out the bikes and followed the foreshore trail from the caravan park along the river for several kilometres. Renmark is a really nice town and was the first settlement on the Murray to have an irrigation scheme.
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| Water intake for the Renmark irrigation scheme |
After lunch we cycled south of the town to a lovely rose garden which also houses a restaurant and a small classic car collection. So there was something for everyone there. Renmark seems to be a bit crazy for roses - there is a rose festival starting here in a few days and lots of the private homes have lovely rose gardens as do many of the public parks.
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| Beautiful velvety rose at Ruston Roses |
Later we drove upstream to a lookout in Paringa where the river bank is about 30 metres high. Renmark is very flat but the last big floods were in 1956 as the river is controlled by locks.
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| Headings Cliffs, Paringa |
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