Travelog post for: Dickens

I saw Kangaroos!!! They hopped away pretty quickly so we couldn't get photos, but I saw them - I did - I did - I did!!

Johanna took me on a drive around the area to see what crops are growing.

There are irrigation channels all over the place. They are lucky to have water this year because it has been very dry. Some rivers have no water in them at all. But on this drive we were headed to the Murrumbidgee River which brings the water to Griffith.



I was doing the navigating and I think I got us lost.



We went down one road for miles, past rice crops and fields of sunflowers and grapes and sorghum and then we came to a dead end and had to turn back. This railway line looks like a deadend as well. There's been no trains here for a VERY long time.



So we headed back the way we came and then found the road we wanted.

Johanna wanted to hide a geocache near the old wharf at Darlington Point on the Murrumbidgee River, but that wasn't on our map and she couldn't find it. But we had fun driving through the River Red Gum forest.



You have to be careful in the forest because the trees drop branches all the time. The River is a popular place to go camping and fishing and you have to make sure that a branch will not drop onto your tent. People have been killed that way. The branch in this photo is quite small, but we still had to drive around it. That's when we saw the kangaroos. There were about 6 of them, all looking at us but they got scared and hopped away. They are really beautiful animals and graceful in their movements. Maybe I could learn to hop on my back legs?

And finally here is the river. It was a hot and windy day and Johanna was getting tired of driving, so we didn't get out of the car. She said that I could go for a swim next time (when she finds where that old wharf is and we go back). I don't know if I will see any fish or coral here if I snorkel. The water looks dirty, but Johanna said that it is nice to swim in.



Maybe next time we might find koalas as well. Johanna said that there are koalas in the Redgum Forests near Narrandera (about 100 kms away) so we might go there to see what we can find.

I like Australia.