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Ovens Odyssey

The Ovens Odyssey was a series of 14 Stages/days paddling to complete the 216 km length of the Ovens River from Harrietville to the Murray River at Bundalong. The map below shows the location of each Stage. Following the map is a Post for each Stage providing information including a map, access, distances, features, times taken, water levels, photos and a video.

Oct 25, 2020
1 min

Ovens Odyssey Stage 14 - Smoko to Bright (Racecourse Plantation)

This was the final stage of the Odyssey, that's it, we're done! We have chipped away over the past 2.5 yeas and have finally completed...

Oct 23, 2020
1 min

Ovens Odyssey Stage 13 - Harrietville to Smoko

We finally got back to the Odyssey after 11 months due to low water levels through the 2019-20 summer and then COVID restrictions. This...

Dec 25, 2019
1 min

Ovens Odyssey Stage 12 - Racecourse Plantation (u/s Bright) to Braithwaites P. (d/s Porepunkah)

We had been waiting for a break from work to correspond with some rainfall in the Ovens catchment so when the river was above 1.3m at...

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