Day 6 Elvish Island to Lake Hume Holiday Village (40 km)

Our last morning of the trip was overcast. Unlike the day before the wind was behind us now. The previous evening we thought we could see the Wymah ferry ahead in the distance. As we paddled towards it turned out to be further than we thought and what we could see was a house. Before long we were past the cable ferry and were negotiating areas with lots of dead trees.

At one point there was a tree with a very large nest. Simon wanted to see the bird that made the nest but it appeared to have been abandoned.



As lunch approached it started to heat up. The cloud had cleared and we could see lots of condensation trails from planes on the Melbourne Sydney flight path.

We pulled up around a point on the lake confident of our navigation but when we set off again we went in the wrong direction. After speaking with some fishermen we discovered we had overshot the turnoff to Hume Weir by 3 or 4 kilometers.

After backtracking we found ourselves heading toward the finish but not before we pulled up and had a swim.

The final stretch toward and under the Bethanga Bridge seemed to take forever. The detail of the bridge gradually filled in as we approached and we started to hear trucks driving over it. As we closed on the bridge Simon was ahead so I raced to catch up however he slowed to get a picture as we reached the bridge. Shortly after we finished near the weir at the holiday village.

Final night was pizza and beer. Lets just say that Joe is far quicker at eating pizza but Simon is ahead in the beer drinking stakes.

What will the rest of the Murray hold for us? Hopefully not a lot more willows.