The popeye is operating each day (except christmas day) with our first cruise at 10am from elder park and our last cruise at 4pm each hour on the hour. the paddle boats are open today and each day after that from 10am until 5pm (except christmas day) in elder park.. Paddle boats on the torrens river in adelaide, s.a. australia.. Paddle boats river torrens you can hire a paddleboat on the banks of the river torrens just near the rotunda by the popeye mooring. (considering we were also allowed to have 3 on the boat..