The small settlement of Lyrup, one of the Riverland's original village settlements, sits across the Murray from the Berri road — and the free cable ferry is the link between them. It's a classic Riverland river crossing, free and running around the clock.
The ferry hauls across the channel in a couple of minutes, giving a brief, pleasant moment on the water and a different angle on the red gum-lined banks. For visitors it opens up the Lyrup Flats section of Murray River National Park and the quiet roads on the eastern side.
Lyrup itself carries a strong sense of the communal village-settlement experiment that helped populate the Riverland in the 1890s. The ferry, free and unhurried, fits that modest, neighbourly character perfectly.
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- Ferry at Lyrup, South Australia.jpg by Dwayne Madden , CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons