E24 - Off to the Rush - Crossing the Murray

Send us Fan Mail A river in flood can be a teacher and a judge. We open on the Murray–Darling Basin’s split personality—winter-and-snowmelt-fed Murray versus summer-storm-fed Darling—to explain why our 1852 trek met a swollen Murray while the Darling ran lower. From there, the story flows to Gundagai, a town mapped neatly between a big river and an anabranch despite Wiradjuri warnings. Earlier floods wrote clear messages in mud, yet officials kept the town on the plain until...