Continuing the trip to Adelaide: this segment in and around Mildura
Mildura's Methodist Church is certainly unusual. Not that the shape is particularly unusual, but the stripped exterior, and it's height relative to width, is striking. The orange/brown layers are brick.
Deakin Street, the main street of Mildura - clearly a city of some wealth and good planning, having such a wide street.
I think we must have stayed here in Mildura at this Motel Northaven. A Google search turns up nothing about it, so I presume it is no longer in business with that name.
The entrance to Lock 11 on the Murray River. It seems the number sequence begins near the mouth and increases going upstream. An aerial photo shows the lock as being a shortcut around a loop with a weir in the main river flow.
Obviously this is looking at the upstream gates on the lock. While the state border is along the southern bank of the Murray River, the land on the other (left) side of the lock is still in Victoria, as this is a channel (possibly man made), and thus the land on the left is an island - Lock Island!
Ah, a customer is arriving for the lock. From appearance, it appears to be a river cruise, and not a working boat.
Easy does it getting into the lock.
Safely in the lock, and probably tied up to the far side for when the lock is flooded to bring the water level up to that on the upstream side.
Paddle wheeler now safely in the lock, it's time to close the downstream gates, as these two men are doing. I don't know if they came off the boat, or are stationed in Mildura.
The valves are now open, and the lock is filling to the level of the upstream river. Not quite there yet. And those two men are again waiting, this time to open the upstream gates once the water levels are equal. It would be impossible (due to the effort required) for them to open the gates before the levels are equal, as the higher level is pushing the gates closed.
Job done, now the journey continues upstream.
Echuca
