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Great Places to Visit - Tocumwal NSW, Australia. Murray River Flood. September/October 2016

Accessing the safety of the bridge at 7.3m. The mighty Murray River is in major flood for the first time since about 1974.  Yes, I know it was in flood in the 1990's, but it didn't get this high.  I actually think the '74 floods were higher as we have old Super 8 movie film of it and it was lapping onto the bridge. It currently is lapping at the bridge, but not onto it. Slight difference you say.  Perhaps so. Anyway what's a couple of centimetres? It's a whopping lot of water running beneath the old rail bridge!!! The bridge itself is about 157 years old! It has seen a number of floods and is still standing. They sure built things to last!  Incredible to watch the speed that the river is flowing at beneath the bridge.  Makes you feel small and powerless.  Nature has amazing power! The town of Tocumwal is safe with levee banks of about 8metres now. Still makes you nervous though watching how high the water has r...

Great Places To Visit - Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

Four days in beautiful Sydney, staying on the North side at Milsons Point. How can I describe it to you?.......Magic!  Just up the street from "the old coat hanger" (the bridge), we could just see the Grand Opera House peeking around the corner at us from our 14th floor room at the Vibe hotel. Nice stay, comfy, and nice food, pleasant staff. We ate in our room a couple of nights and down at the bar another night. Friendly staff, nice food. Anyway, we had a good time playing tourist. In Sydney you can get a "day ticket" for public transport (at least at the time of writing this you could) which was about $28 each. We hopped on a ferry and took a ride to Darling Harbour and back past Milsons Point to Circular Quay, where we hopped on another ferry to Manly - just 'cause we could. It was a lovely day, calm water, warm, really enjoyed the ferry rides. The water was calm so the ride was smooth. We also went to Luna Park - yes Sydney has a Luna Park. It was litera...