Edward‐Wakool River System
A brief look at some of the longest anabranches of the Murray River
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
This is a placeholder stub in participation of a future paddle down one or both of these rivers.
The Edward and Wakool Rivers are the two major anabranches of the Murray River. Taking Edward River is 435.7 km, the Murray 499.8 km, however being a smaller river with weirs, it is unlikely to be a quicker shortcut. If you paddle the even smaller Wakool River, then that is the shortest at 427.7 km, but this will likely be the longest and hardest.
Note that there are no key waypoints on the smaller Wakool River.
Key Waypoints of the Edward River
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minus 95.6 km
Tocumwal, NSW
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0 km
Picnic Point
The Edward River leaves the Murray just as you reach Picnic Point.
Be careful that you do not pass this and head up Gulpa Creek. That is 1.2 km downstream and is 54.9 km, adding 20 km if it is navigable all the way up to where it rejoins Edward River.
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36.1 km
Gulpa Creek
One may want to study the correlation between the Murray River Height at the Gulpa Creek offtake and flows before committing to this option.
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67.2 km
Deniliquin
Deni has an IGA and Coles supermarket.
The gauge at Toonalook is about 20 km upstream.
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77.6 km
Wakool River Offtake
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275.9 km
Moulamein
There is an IGA X-press in town (general store)
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400.8 km
Wakool River
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435.7 km
Murray River
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586.4 km
Robinvale, VIC
Popular small town in the middle of nowhere that seems to attract a high number of power boats!
Supplies
There are limited supply options; the supermarkets at Deniliquin and a small general store at Moulamein.
Distances from key locations, including a couple that are on the Murray River.
Tap or hover your mouse over a table cell to show the estimated number of days it will likely take between two locations.
| Distances (KM) | Cobram | Tocumwal | Picnic Point | Deniliquin | Moulamein | Murray River | Robinvale | Distances (KM) |
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| Cobram | 0 | 27 | 123 | 190 | 399 | 558 | 709 | Cobram |
| Tocumwal | 27 | 0 | 96 | 163 | 372 | 531 | 682 | Tocumwal |
| Picnic Point | 123 | 96 | 0 | 67 | 276 | 436 | 586 | Picnic Point |
| Deniliquin | 190 | 163 | 67 | 0 | 209 | 369 | 519 | Deniliquin |
| Moulamein | 399 | 372 | 276 | 209 | 0 | 160 | 311 | Moulamein |
| Murray River | 558 | 531 | 436 | 369 | 160 | 0 | 151 | Murray River |
| Robinvale | 709 | 682 | 586 | 519 | 311 | 151 | 0 | Robinvale |
| Distances (KM) | Cobram | Tocumwal | Picnic Point | Deniliquin | Moulamein | Murray River | Robinvale | Distances (KM) |
The distances were calculated by manually digitising the river path from various aerial images (ESRI, Bing, Google) in QGIS (WGS 84).
Map
The map has markers every km starting from 0 at the confluence where the Wakool meets the Murray. Zoom in to see all of these markers. These numbers do not correlate with any existing numbering system on the river.
- Edwards River
- Wakool River
- Merron Creek
- Murray River
Flows
Water NSW gauges are noted below:
My Personal Journeys
My rambling blogs and trip tables for trips down the three rivers.
Edward River
First trip starting from Toocumwal and finishing at Boundary Bend
Wakool River
Second trip starting from Toocumwal and finishing at Boundary Bend again, but this time on the Wakool and starting on Gulpa Creek.
Niemur River
Third and final trip starting from Stevens Weir on Collagen Creek and finishing Kyalite.
Robinvale can get extremely busy with water skiers and wakeboarders during the summer school break and they also host a water ski race around easter.