Hi All now nearly 5 weeks on the Murray camping in beautiful and very different spots each night. We have grabbed three showers along the way at caravan parks and had one luxury overnight stay in a 4.5 star hotel at the cost of less than three nights in caravan parks. We have seen scenery few get to see, done long walks on many occassions before setting off in the morning and generally had a brilliant time. The Murray being in minor flood has eventually convinced us to turn and sail with the flow back home and return another time to do the higher reaches. I suspect by the time we get back to Wellington East we will have been 6 weeks on water. Whilst the original equipment costs are high they are well less than equivalent age, size and condition caravans and especially motorhome.
The ability to free wildcamp in many of the best of all possible spots in complete tranquility and privacy is generally unmatched by on land camping especially on river banks. Unless something extra exciting happens now I think I will sign off this thread now. :)

PS Also I would have loved to have posted more photos but this has proved very useful challenging with the low signal strength on many parts of our trip. we have taken a huge number of dramatic shots and its hard to beat a sunset taken across a still river with reflections. 

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Back home and unpacked now from over 5 weeks travelling up and back on the Murray River living onboard our trailable yacht and free camping every night in spectacular river locations. Total accommodation cost for over 5 weeks superb camping was $30 for 6 showers and $150 for a nights 4.5 star hotel room ( with a couple more showers).
Total petrol cost for 5 weeks travelling on most days was under $300 and we did buy 8 dinners out, 7 lunches and 3 breakfasts and did some fairly limited fresh food shopping and an alcohol restock carrying the rest onboard the yacht with us for the entire journey. One laundromat visit mid trip as well.
As originally posted ( and argued about with a few ) it is an excellent alternative to the more traditional styles of caravanning and camping. Signing off now from Graeme and Clare

Graeme: this forum is very poor in the way it handles aged threads and I note this thread is now four years old which means it's difficult to navigate and many people will have missed it. May I request that you start a new thread for any further journeys?

Some people enjoyed the blog 4yrs ago. And they added to the series

-- Edited by Plain Truth on Sunday 31st of July 2022 05:20:27 PM

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