With the Winter Blues Festival behind us, we decided to have a wander around the town of Echuca and in particular visit the old port area, now a tourist precinct with numerous vestiges reminding the visitor of the town’s rich history as a major port on the Murray River.
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A side trip to Melbourne – Day 318
Over dinner last night we changed our plans for today so instead of looking around the Old Port Area of Echuca (which we will now do tomorrow), we decided to go to Melbourne for the day, by train. We had no particular reason to go to Melbourne other than for the train trip itself and at the fares on offer, why not?
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Echuca and a surprise festival – Day 316
After breakfast and filling up a couple of our water tanks we were on the road again, albeit for less than an hour to Echuca, or Echuca – Moama if you include its sister town of Moama, across the river in New South Wales. In days past Echuca was Australia’s most significant inland river port. Located on the Murray River, it is over 1,700 kilometres or 1,000 miles from the mouth of the river. Today the former hustle and bustle of a busy trading port has been replaced by the comings and goings of tourists, particularly short term visitors from Melbourne, only a couple of hundred kilometres to the south. In addition to being a popular tourist destination the town remains an important service centre for the surrounding agricultural region.
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The Rambling Wombat 