Senior Morton's World Tour

Kids are done, work is done, Grand Kids…Eh… they'll be here when we get back!

Echuca

Posted by laurie and jill in Adventures on 11 11th, 2014

Friday 7th November 2014
We left Bendigo reasonably early and paid a visit to the Bendigo Pottery factory. We had a very interesting look around the place, but didn’t find anything to buy, so headed north stopping at Rochester for lunch. We finally arrived at the inland port of Echuca. We thought we would check out where our accommodation was and saw it was in a very nice development. It looked like a nice place to stay. We knocked on the door to announce our arrival, only to be told “we were expecting you yesterday!!!” OOPS!!! We messed up the booking!! They were fully booked for the night so were unable to offer us anything, so we were directed to the Tourist Information Centre, who were very helpful and found us something in Moama, which is the sister city across the river in New South Wales. As it turned out it was a very new place and although our initial reaction wasn’t good, our accommodation was excellent and very spacious. So we off loaded our luggage and went into Echuca to explore, especially the Paddle steamers for which Echuca is famous.

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Now, for Zac and Mich. – this is the sort of transport Grandpa used to get around on.

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The last photo shows the Moama beach and also the bridge joining the two cities. The one before that is the river next to our accommodation. It was quite a warm day, but we wandered down the street and through the old historic Harbour which is a lot different to what it was 30 years ago when I was last here. We then had a bottomless cup of coffee in the popular Beechworth bakery, with some coupons the lady at our original accommodation gave us.
Next morning we were a bit late and so missed out on a paddle steamer ride as we needed to leave for our next destination, however we did note that there were many houseboats for hire and maybe one day we can organize to get our family together for a sail down the Murray River.