OUR FINAL DAYS ON THE MIGHTY MURRAY RIVER

Tuesday 28th March, we have found a new Coco Bend Caravan and Camping Ground over on the Moama (NSW) side of the river with lovely friendly owners that have heaps of information for you to spend your time locally.  We have chosen a site beside the lake not the river this time.  Love watching these red rumped parrots feeding around us as well as duck, plovers, galahs, magpies, peewees and swallows flitting into our canopy area.

Loved watching these red rumped parrots feeding beside our rig.

Woke early to capture this lounge window view.  How tranquil is this.

After setting up we took a drive back over the bridge to Victoria's Echuca to explore the history of the township and port.  We vaguely remember the area from years gone bye but so much progress has happened in this area, especially for the tourist industry.  Booked for a paddle-steamer luncheon on EmmyLou (the paddle-steamer used for the tv program "Rivers Run") for Thursday.

Wednesday, the usual laundry day and then headed on down to the back of the caravan park where we attempted to catch a Murray River Cod for dinner!  Not to be, but was a great back-drop to relax, watch a group of free campers across the other side and a heap of noisy school children on some horse riding and horse drawn carriage ride stop and play on the banks.

Thursday 30th March  Today we enjoyed our lunch on board the paddle-steamer EmmyLou. Temperatures have plummeted today so we have donned our winter woollies to sit out on the deck for lunch.  I am amazed at the number of paddle-steamers still in working order here at the Port of Echuca.

I am very disappointed, my SD card must be full, so all the photos I took this afternoon on the water and at the Holden Museum have not been recorded.  We found the museum very interesting.  I was trying to remember what model Mum and Dad's car was or did they have two??  Memory is not that great now after all it was fifty five years ago!!!

We have just loved roaming this Murray River and learning all the history and seeing all the businesses the water from this huge river provide.  We haven't seen all of the Murray but a large  portion of it.  Well worth this adventure.  Tomorrow we now head north to be back with the family for Easter.  Counting down now.