Day 10

This morning we checked out the touristy things around Bourke. There is a large Information and Exhibition centre where Peter took lots of photos (and I took a couple too).







Bourke is situated on the banks of the Darling River, and in the late 1800's was a thriving town for the wool, cotton and citrus industries. Wool was transported down the Darling to the Murray River, then onto Adelaide. There were up to 80 riverboats servicing the region. One of the paddle steamers was the PV JANDRA. Strangely enough the river has too much water in it at the moment for the replica of it to be in service. However I thought this photo was appropriate.








North Bourke Bridge was the first lift bridge over the Darling. It was built in England, then brought up the river in sections. It was quite muddy down along the river banks as the water has been fairly high here recently, so I couldn't get real close to it for a side on view.





This is another view of the Darling River from the wharf near town.



It is almost 5pm and we are just having our 3rd storm since lunch time. Luckily none of them have been vicious, but there is a bit more thunder and lightning in this one. Just as long as there is no wind to shake the van around. This one has lasted longer with much more rain. There are forecasts for flooding on the Darling at Bourke, so hope we can leave here tomorrow.

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