Few know about it, but just a few hours drive from Mildura, you can find Victoria’s little slice of Mad Max Country.
Not many people associate red dust, stumpy shingleback lizards and emu chicks darting through the scrub with a Victorian road trip, but in the north-west of the state, just a few hours drive from Mildura, you can find Victoria’s very own corner of the outback.
We are just off the Sturt Highway that joins Mildura and Adelaide in the county of Millewa . Millewa is a large agriculture region with the sort of sprawling properties that you see just before hitting the outback. At the confluence of the Murray and Darling Rivers, the water has covered the carpark and is lapping up against the road, with more water to come. Entering the Murray Sunset National Park we come across a few hairy water crossings – I’m glad to have Thornton at the wheel. This is real Mallee country, scrubby and tough and when the water does come it makes the area hazardous; you need a good guide.
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