About 5kms out of town are the Perry sand dunes, went there last time so didn't go again
Courthouse
Captain Yung was one of the 1st riverboat captains to ply the Murray & Darling rivers
Jan & Captain Yung
David James Jones "The Possum Man" was born in NZ & came over here in his twenties to try his luck @ shearing, but the depression was on & he couldn't find work & he didn't have enough money to pay the union fees & no-one would give him a start without it. He went bush & wandered around the Mallee & Murray / Darling basin for over 50 years. Farms would leave food out for him occassionally & he would repair fences, chop wood. He was hardly ever seen by anyone & only 2 people actually got to meet him once he went bush. The winter of 1982 was extremely cold & he died alone in the bush @ 81 years old
Paddle steamer "Ruby" built 1907
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