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Drought reveals underwater secrets Ancient shipwrecks a new attraction at riverside park SHIVER me timbers ... there's a new attraction at a South Australian caravan park! Proud ships that once plied the River Murray but were left to lie in the murky depths as wrecks are surfacing again because water levels are continuing to fall in the drought. "These wonderful boats have been exposed," Mannum Caravan Park manager Kirsty MacGregor said. Some of the boats can be seen from her 165-site three-and-a-half-star park adjacent the local ferry and she hoped they would attract tourists back to communities hit hard by ongoing drought. "This will just sort of pique people's curiosity as to what's there and get people to come," she reportedly said. "Once they are there we can show them the real river. I hope this will become a tourist attraction." Some of the shipwrecks have not seen the light of day for up to 70 years. Ms McGregor hoped visitors would soon be able to canoe along the river to explore the historical relics from the deep. One of the exposed wrecks is believed to be the PS Saddler, a paddle-steamer thought to have been abandoned in the area. BACK TO CARAVANNING NEWS MAIN PAGE
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