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HOTEL Granya, VICTORIA

THE FIRST TIME I RODE the Murray River Road from the Bethanga Bridge along the southern edge of Lake Hume and then the upper reaches of our greatest river to Towong and then Corryong was a bit over ten years ago.

The country was in the vice grip of the millennial drought and yet the beauty of the river, regularly accompanying me on the left, was transfixing. It was early January and the tar was melting in places but the serpentine curves of the Murray, in places almost a creek, were constantly entrancing.

I stopped at all the regular pubs, Jingellic, Walwa, Tintaldra and then down to Corryong for a U-turn and a retrace just to see if the road and the scenery were as good a second time.

On the boomerang I stopped at the Wymah Punt to grab a couple of pics. The Murray here that

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