GINGER Johns was this week frantically carting his wool over the Outlet Creek bridge before it becomes unsafe, as the Murray's backwaters rise with the creeping flood.

From now on, he'll only be able to get to town by rowing a boat.

Ginger, 76, has seen it all before, as have most of the families on the high ground to the creek's east, which for weeks or months will be an island, but that doesn...