The Guidebook contains an index of the paddling destinations covered in these pages.

4 May 2008. Mark writes: Wivenhoe to Twin bridges - a small tree has fallen across the entire river about 20cm above the waterline at the "log jam" area a few kms south of Wivenhoe.  Boats need to be passed over it. (remember you can portage around the log jam …. see Guidebook section notes. Editor)

Twin Bridges to Savages - impassable.  There are two long stretches of hyacinth (700m+ and 300m+) of bank to bank hyacinth.  Portage would be extremely difficult due to very steep banks and a difficult walking track and we did not attempt it after scouting the ahead route. .... THX Mark

12 February: Twin Bridges to Savages Crossing - closed

About a kilometre upstream from Savages Crossing, is a weed blocked passage. It is about 400 metres long or more. Portage looked very difficult, with steep river banks, and overgrown vegetation.

March 22: Savages to Burtons - closed
   
First problem was about one and a half kilometres down. The hyacinth has not yet regrown across the river but another weed, which I don't know the name of, is filling in the gaps between it in a lot of places.. It is rooted on the bottom and floats just below the surface and would no doubt be quite deadly if you capsized in it.
   
On a couple of occasions we had to push through this weed for a few metres. It is not as difficult as getting through the hyacinth but I wouldn't want to have to do too much of it. From what we could see large stretches of the river will be covered with it fairly soon.
   
Further down at the 4.8 km mark the river is completely blocked with hyacinth. It went as far as we could see to the next bend which was 300 metres away.
   
The bank was not too bad on the left but from our maps it looked as if got very steep at the bend. The right hand side was not an option (too steep)  so it could end up being a very difficult portage if the weed continued around the corner! We opted to paddle back to Savages. (Thanks Clair)

16th February: Burtons Bridge to Kholo Bridge - portage required

The section was paddled involved a 300m portage around weed about 10 km downstream of Burton's Bridge that the paddler described as relatively easy to portage, with a clear track to follow on the left. The rest of the river section was described as relatively clear of weed.

Photograph no. 1 on Gallery Page is view from Burton's of the river, taken 7 Feb, 2008.

Mary River level ... low,
* 03 July 2008

to be updated ... 01 August

... Upper Clarence River levels ...
* updated 03 July 2008

Update: Blue Green Algae level in Clarrie Hall Dam, Doon Doon Creek, via Uki; and access:
Tweed Shire Council Water Supply Engineer advises " No current restrictions " 27 Nov 2007