PADDLE ALONG THE MURRAY 'S PAST
“From the 1860s to the early 1900s, the Murray was like an inland highway, a hive of activity with the splash of some 240 paddle-steamers”
Legend has it, Harry ‘The Breaker’ Morant rode his horse into the bar of the Renmark Hotel. Established in 1897, the hotel sits grandly near the banks of the Murray River in the South Australian town known as a ‘Gateway to the Flinders Ranges.’ Bush poet, drover, daring horseman, Boer War soldier and convicted war criminal, ‘The Breaker’ — born Edwin Murrant in Somerset, England, in 1864 — is just one of the characters entwined in the stories that abound across regional South Australia.
In the hotel where Morant once whetted his thirst, today you can dine on a balcony overlooking the Murray River, where a paddleboat awaits passengers for a cruise along the river that runs through this handsome town of wide streets and vast riverbank parklands.
Renmark lies 256km north-east of Adelaide, and is one of the major service centres on the Murray. From the 1860s to the
