Murray River Victoria Australia

Day 7-10 Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th October 2026

The great Murray River forms the northern natural border between Victoria and New South Wales, stretching 2,508 km as Australia's longest river from the Australian Alps to the mouth in Goolwa, South Australia.

We have camped and visited many parts of this beautiful meandering river and we are happy to see a section of the upper murray we have not been to before between Tallangatta and Walwa. 

From Granya we drove through some gorgeous countryside (its sooo green here atm) to Thologolong, which is of historical and scientific significance for its associations with the development of the world renowned Murray Grey breed of beef cattle, Australia’s only internationally recognised breed.

The clouds were low this morning 

These are not the Murray Grey cows

40km later we got to a superb campsite at Burrowye Reserve, offering lots of grassy waterfront views.

Mark needed to do a small repair on the awning arm which unbeknown to us we had obviously scrapped on a tree branch. 

He also investigated possible reasons why we had a small water leak coming through the air conditioner (may need to replace the screws and rubber gasket when we get home).

The rest of the time we enjoyed the sunshine and the views. As we did our laps around the campsite we stopped to have a chat with a few fellow campers.

On Thursday, after a couple of nights here, we continued our up river explorations.

Leaving camp at the very reasonable hour of 9am, we trundled out of the fog into the beautiful sunshine. 

The views from the Mt.Alfred lookout were very picturesque with the rolling green hillside and the river meandering through the valley.

We went to have a look at Gadds Bend Reserve that we could have easily camped at but the cows were a bit too inquisitive and we did need to get to the dump point in Walwa. So we grabbed a few fire wood that had been left behind and continued on.

This rural village grew due to prospecting for tin ore in 1882-83, but it was agriculture that formed the permanent settlement here.

There are still some lovely historic buildings in the main street including the pub and grocery store. Although small it seems to be thriving. Many travels stop, like us, to use the varied facilities. We saw people enjoying a round of golf and there is a caravan park situated near the river (not for us… we prefer the free campsites). 

Another lookout along the way.. the Bogong Moth

20km (50km all up) further up river we turned off the Murray River Road into the Clarke Lagoon Reserve. We did a lap of the campsite and were astonished to see no other campers here. (Someone else did come in later in the day).

We chose our spot looking over the river and enjoyed the glorious sunshine. 

This will do us for a couple of nights.

Our new mini starlink set up…uses a lot less power.