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Steam Tug Yelta

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I’d had to take a bus-load of school kids to Port Adelaide on an excursion, and while the teachers took them to various places I was able to sit on a pontoon and paint this picture of the 1948 South Australian-built Yelta, with the steam engine originally intended for a naval Corvette.

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Goolwa Wharf

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Goolwa’s the well-known river-port near the mouth of the Murray where the South Australian Wooden Boat Festival draws big crowds every second year, and thousands of holiday-makers every summer.

I painted this one on a lazy Saturday when even the old Mundoo, tied up at the wharf here, was quietly sleeping.

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Goolwa

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This is a little sand island just downstream of the barrage at Goolwa, and home to plenty of birdlife.

The barrage is out-of-view to the left and the Murray Mouth is a few kilometres away over the horizon to the right.

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