Our Murray River adventure continues. We’re now comfortably settled into our Airbnb digs on the bank of the Darling River. This river is the largest tributary of the Murray River catchment. For the next five nights, we’re enjoying plenty of R&R doing absolutely nothing every day.
Our accommodation is impressive, to say the least. We’ve based ourselves in a modern apartment-style home with soaring ceilings and a wall of glass that looks out over manicured lawns and the Darling River. It’s part of a hobby farm located on Yankabilly Island, a semi-isolated landmass that was once the eastern bank of the river itself.
The farm is located just 10 minutes drive from the town of Wentworth. This town’s claim to fame is its location at the junction of the Murray and Darling River systems. Earlier in the day we stopped in town and climbed a local observation tower. Here we could see the brown and murky waters of the Darling slowly merging with the greener hues of the Murray. This is my second time in Wentworth. I was last here in 2003.
UPDATE: 2 January 2022
We’ve finally had our first river swim. The Airbnb homestead has its own floating jetty. We ventured down to the river yesterday and enjoyed a couple of hours splashing around the muddy Darling. The outback heat here has been extraordinary. We’ve endured temperatures approaching 40 degrees most days. Thank goodness the home has air-conditioning!
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