More Riverland 27/1/09

Berri is a reasonable size town and about a half hour drive from Kingston-On-Murray and require you to pass through the very small township of Glossop which is home to the Berri Estate Winery that has the largest production plant I have come across. Unfortunately owned by an American conglomerate known as Constellation Wines who are also agents for WA, Tasmanian and New Zealand wines.

I was very impressed to discover that the Glossop High School (surprised that such a small place had a high school) has a multimedia section that produces several of the road safety films that are seen on TV.



Apart from the natural beauty of Berri it is a very clean town and has a relatively large shopping centre compared to KOM and Barmera and is quite a bit closer than Renmark.





It has a bridge rather than a ferry to cross the river which houses a mural by the indiginous locals under its
main structure.











Loxton is a smaller town and boosts a heratige museum park, a section of river with and island in it, and a town jetty that looks like it has seen much better days and higher river levels.






It also has a ferry for river crossings.





These Ferries are cable operated so the cable is pulled tight between the ferry and the bank it is approaching and lays the cable on the river bed behind it, so speed boats and skiers need to pass behind the ferry, not in front, or pay the consequences