Lock 1 Weir Walk, Blanchetown
The first lock built on the Murray, where you can watch the navigation and fishway up close.
Lock 1 at Blanchetown was the first of the Murray's locks, completed in 1922, and it remains a fascinating place to understand how the modern river is managed. From the public viewing areas you can watch the lock cycle boats through and see the fishway that lets native fish pass the weir.
The locks turned a wildly variable river into a navigable, irrigable one, and standing at Lock 1 the engineering ambition of that is obvious. The pelicans that loaf below the weir, fishing the turbulent water, are a bonus.
It marks the western gateway to the Riverland, an easy and free stop that explains the whole managed-river story in one spot.
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- Blanchetown Murray River Lock 1 under construction(GN00773).jpg by State Government Photographer , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons