It has become famous as it is the birthplace of David Unaipon who was an inventor and author and his image is on the Australian $50 note. Also on the note is the mission church of Ruakkan built in 1869 and the church has been restored and is still in use today.
He is like the Australian version of Leonardo de Vinci and it was really interesting finding out about his mechanical inventions which he received no credit for at the time.
He was also the first Aboriginal author to publish works in English, you might want to find out more by clicking on this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Unaipon
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The Raukkan Mission ChurchAfter a great stay and some very warm weather we drove about 40kms up the road to the small town of Tailem Bend. It is located on the Murray River and funnily enough right on the bend where we actually camped for the night. They say the name could come from the Aboriginal name of the bend or maybe from early farming settlers naming it connected which the tailing of sheep!!! No one knows.After a walk around the town which all shut up at 1pm on a Saturday we looked for a camp and found a great place on the bend above the Murray with a good view of all the boats that passed by. It was a very hot afternoon and my only wish was that we could reach the water easily for a swim but the cliff was rather too steep.
The bend that the town may be named after!
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| Perfect place ,we were about 4 metres above the Murray River |
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