I found this web site by googling for information about house boats. If you like midi banjo music, turn up the volume before you go there. Anyone with suicidal tendencies should stay away from the photo gallery. I don't ordinarily want to do away with myself, but thought about briefly it during a spasm of envy. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/9ovlu to "enter the harbor," but don't say I didn't warn you!

I have photos of sternwheel houseboats. There are quite a few in Australia. If you don't wish to commit internet suicide just ask me for photos!

That boat builder lives just a few miles downstream from my hometown of New Martinsville, WV.  I stumbled across the site a few years before & thought the same when I saw the layout. 

For quiet and serene, easy to navigate, sternwheel houseboats:
www.libaliba.com.au
This isn't the only operator of sternwheelers, but it is the one with the largest fleet.
There are also several private owners.
There are various photos scattered in my contibutions to the two APAM threads, and in my reports of Jessie II cruises.
The Liba Liba site is very good with photos and plans of houseboats of various sizes, and also explains some of the scenery and wildlife likely to be seen in that part of the river.
For the whole run from Border Cliffs to Wentworth (probably Renmark to Border Cliffs too), the standard Murray River 2 km markers were supplemented by mileposts erected by Liba Liba, hinting that the company will allow its hirers to go the whole way through.  Other companies ban its hirers from going through the tricky Warrakoo reach (20 km below lock 7), or above lock 7.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor