River Rambling

overnight paddle in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

Meditation, mindfulness, communing with nature: all come to mind as we paddled our final 57 km to the Goulburn Murray confluence.  Stages...

Images, statistics and mapping for this stage is provided below. See Stage 19 for a description of this and subsequent stages. Access:...

Images, statistics and mapping for this stage is provided below. See Stage 19 for a description of this and subsequent stages. Access:...

(Pete's summary for Stages 14-16) Our paddling has been in a bit of a hiatus with only one stage completed in the past 15 months. We...

This and the previous two stages have similar river character. See Stage 16 for some commentary about the river and features. Note that...

This and the next two stages have similar river character. See Stage 16 for some commentary about the river and features. Note that we...

The next four stages have similar river character. See Stage 16 for some commentary about the river and features. Access: The entry...

The Wingan River and Estuary is relatively undisturbed, mostly due to the isolation, being in far East Gippsland and 50 minutes by dirt...

Fourteen paddlers in nine boats converged on Shepparton to tackle this relatively relaxed 16 km Stage. A colourful fleet of canoes,...

Three paddlers in two boats got on the water some 12 months since the last Goulburn Grail Stage. Prolonged flooding of the Goulburn...

The World Heritage listed Ningaloo Marine Park is located on the north-west coast of Western Australia. The Ningaloo Reef is unique as...

Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in New South Wales with an urban population close to 60,000. The city straddles the Murrumbidgee...

Four paddlers in three boats tackled this stage on what was predicted to be a very hot day. Just the long faster boats were brought out...

Nine of us in 5 boats tackled this stage on a hot New Years Day 2022. There were 100's of campers who were occupying every sandy beach,...

Six of us in three boats tackled this 19 km Stage on a cold, yet fine and partly sunny, mid-May day. The river flow was providing a...

This Stage was planned as a fast paddle, in fast boats, since we were in the backwater of the Goulburn Weir for 30km. That meant we were...

These 2 stages were tackled over one weekend in mid April while there was still a bit of flow from irrigation and an environmental flow...

Into the flatter lands travelled a large cohort of enthusiastic grailleurs for this, the second weekend. Fortunately, river levels had...

A Grail can be defined as 'A thing that is eagerly pursued or sought after', or 'the object of an extended or difficult quest'. The...