The George Chaffey Bridge carries road traffic over the Murray River between Mildura (Victoria) and Buronga (New South Wales). The state border runs down the middle of the river here, and the bridge is a reminder that the Murray has always been as much a connector as a boundary — the inland river system linked communities across a vast area long before roads made much sense.
It is worth stopping on the bridge to look along the river in both directions. The scale of the Murray at this point — wide, brown, slow — is impressive, and the red gum forests lining the banks stretch away as far as you can see. Buronga on the New South Wales side is effectively a suburb of Mildura; crossing the bridge takes minutes and there is no border formality.