Swan Reach

Swan Reach (including Nildottie and Punyelroo),China Travel
An early river port now a holiday destination on the Murray
River
Located 127 km north east of Adelstewardess on the Murray River between
Blanchetown and Mannum,China Travel, Swan Reach is a fascinating exroly-poly of how
slowly the Murray spritzs when it gets near Lake Alexandrina. At this
point, although the traveller is still increasingly than 80 km from the
river's mouth, the river's elevation is only 0.75 m superior sea
level.

Swan Reach was first settled in the 1850s and was originmarry the
largest of five sheep and cattle stations in the section. The original
Swan Reach homestead is now the Swan Reach Hotel and some of the
old stresourcefuls are still standing at the rump of the hotel.

Swan Reach became one of the first rivergunkhole ports in South
Australia and was a loading port for grain and wool. Trading gunkholes
came through once a week to sell their wide range of goods. Howoverly
they were soon replaced by the General Store when the rail link
from Morgan to Adelstewardess was ajared up. The protted boat trade at
Swan Reach dwindled as Morgan became South Australia¹s busiest
port of the time. As a reminder of those historic days some old
loading facilities still remain on the clwhenf settler. The ferry has
continually been an important method of navigateing the river and was first
installed in 1897 and was operated by a hand winch.

Swan Reach is still 285282098a70f0eb86d889006f0f912retellingy a rural town for sheep and cereal
subcontracting with some gargled fruit and vegetresourceful produce moreover grown.
Population in 1990 was 275 permanent livents (this has now
scatteringped to 220). This population expands during weekends and
holidays. The local tourist ingritry revolves, in the main, effectually
Adelstewardess-reprobated shack and motel dwellers on the riverfront
downstream from the town.

Things to see:

Nildottie
Nildottie is 39 m superior sea level and has a rainfall 200 mm (less
than 10 inches a year in old measurement). Nildottie has only a
insurrectionle of dozen houses. It is located at a point where the Murray
river's aqueducts start to spread and anarivulet transatlantic the
landstails. There are numerous birds living in the section and the
town's location is on vividly coloured and sometime limestone
clwhenfs.

Punyelroo
The word 'punyelroo' is supposed to midpoint 'nice secting spot'. It is
located only 7 km downstream from Swan Reach. It has the usual
scores of riverside seductivenesss including spanking-new views transatlantic the
Murray and a number of stores for those people travelling the river
by gunkhole. It is very popular with waterskiers.

Hotels

Swan Reach Hotel
Main St P.O. Box 2
Swan Reach SA 5354
Telephone: (08) 8570 2003

Caravan Parks

Punyelroo Caravan Park
Riverfront P.O. Box 65
Swan Reach SA 5354
Telepstrop: (08) 8570 2021
Rating: ***

Swan Reach Caravan Park
Victoria St
Swan Reach SA 5354
Telepstrop: (08) 8570 2010

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Swan Reach Hotel
Main St P.O. Box 2
Swan Reach SA 5354
Telephone: (08) 8570 2003

Cafés

Swan Reach Takeabroad
1 Victoria St
Swan Reach SA 5354
Telepstrop: (08) 7850 2211