Trip Reports | Riverina Murrumbidgee Descent Oura Beach to Coolamon November 2020 By ANDY SINGH What makes a great trip? Military planners apply an ‘art’ and ‘design’ approach to operational planning—the design is the what of achievement, while art is
Trip Reports | Riverina Murrumbidgee River Canoe Safari Wagga Wagga to Narrandera 21-28 January 2023 Trip Leader: PETER CALEY Trip report and photos from the crew of 18 This Murrumbidgee trip traverses Wiradjuri Land. The Wiradjuri are people of the
Trip Reports | Australian Capital Territory Whitewater Skills Weekend Casuarina Sands to Uriarra Crossing, Murrumbidgee River 26-27 March 2022 By KEVIN SONGBERG After droughts, COVID-19 breakouts, and then floods, we were finally able to hold a whitewater skills weekend aimed
What a weekend, River Canoe Club’s first dedicated canoe journey in many years. Australia Day on the iconic Murrumbidgee River. 20 people, 10 canoes and 1 kayak, 100km of river, several beginner and novice canoeists, some seasoned expedition canoe families who had clocked over 800km of Murrumbidgee and a couple of former national and international canoe slalom paddlers who had not seen each other in 35 years. The stand out feature of this trip was the amazing group of people and how well the group bonded and worked together over the weekend.
The Shoalhaven was rising so I asked the group if they wanted to paddle Oallen Ford to the Power Lines. A few were interested but by Friday morning it had risen too high. So the trip was moved once again and the Murrumbidgee was the destination.
In the end there was just Ben Jones and Ian and Caroline Houghton who joined me. The river had risen mid-week but by the time we got on the water at Pine Island on Saturday it had dropped to 1.2m which was just enough to paddle everything. The water was an unusual dark brown colour but it soon became apparent that was due to runoff from bushfire ravaged areas upstream. The eddies were full of small pieces of charcoal and the banks were covered with a black mud from where the river have been more than a metre higher earlier in the week. The murky water made it very hard to see rocks which were just below the surface.
The Shoalhaven was rising so I asked the group if they wanted to paddle Oallen Ford to the Power Lines. A few were interested but by Friday morning it had risen too high. So the trip was moved once again and the Murrumbidgee was the destination.
In the end there was just Ben Jones and Ian and Caroline Houghton who joined me. The river had risen mid-week but by the time we got on the water at Pine Island on Saturday it had dropped to 1.2m which was just enough to paddle everything. The water was an unusual dark brown colour but it soon became apparent that was due to runoff from bushfire ravaged areas upstream. The eddies were full of small pieces of charcoal and the banks were covered with a black mud from where the river have been more than a metre higher earlier in the week. The murky water made it very hard to see rocks which were just below the surface.