
A RIVER ODYSSEY: THE Murray River meets a sorry end not far from Goolwa.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: THE Murray River is starting to show its age at Waikerie.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: MILDURA is the oasis of Victoria’s hot, arid north-west.
But like every other community along the Murray River, the prolonged drought is starting to bite, and bite hard.

12:45 PM AEDT | A RIVER ODYSSEY: REX “Trip” Walsh is a bit of a legend up Swan Hill way.
He is a walking, talking dynamo with a story for every day of his 80 years.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: TONY Brown is an old salt who is in his element on the Murray River at Echuca.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: THE Murray River has changed dramatically by the time it twists and turns its way through the Barmah-Millewa Forest.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: ORCHARDISTS the length of the Murray River are feeling the pinch as drought continues to reduce the amount of water available within our food bowl — the Murray-Darling basin.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: SYDNEY has its Harbour Bridge, Melbourne has the West Gate Bridge, San Francisco the Golden Gate Bridge and Yarrawonga-Mulwala has the, well, the Twisty Dippy Bridge.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: THE Murray River around Corowa has long been one of the favourite haunts of anglers chasing the elusive “big ’un.”

A RIVER ODYSSEY: COROWA etched its place in Australia’s history by way of the 1893 Federation Conference.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: FOR more than 100 years the Gray family and the Murray River have been as one.
A RIVER ODYSSEY: WE are damned without them but the Murray River is damned with them.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: Many have conquered the Mighty Murray. Most have traversed Australia’s greatest river by travelling downstream by boat or canoe. Some more hardy adventurers have done it the hard way by boating or paddling upstream from the source to Lake Hume, and in some cases, beyond. Yet others — two to be precise — have conquered the river by swimming from
Bringenbrong bridge. These are The Conquerors..

11:44 AM AEDT | A RIVER ODYSSEY: THE Smithwicks have owned the property known as “Talmalmo” since 1868.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: KEN Nankervis counts his blessings that he was able to spend the prime years of his life experiencing the pristine beauty and isolation of Tom Groggin station and the river that divides it.
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A RIVER ODYSSEY: HIGH in the Australian Alps a river is born. But this is not just any river. It is our greatest waterway, the Murray River.

A RIVER ODYSSEY: PETER Wilson's love of the Murray River was sealed on his first trip there as a 7-year-old in 1952.