Echuca

We have spent a week here at Echuca and can't believe how fast the week has past. Echuca is one of our favorite towns we stay at the Top Tourist Caravan Park at the top end of the Port which is walking distance to the Port and specialty shops It is lovely to sit outside the van and listen to the Paddle Steamer whistles as they motor up and down the Murray River. The Kookaburra's are also quiet vocal, with their chatter, except at 4.15am, I love listening to them but not at that time of the morning.The weather at the beginning of the week was a bit miserable but after a couple of days it improved and we were able to walk to to the Port and visit the Beechworth Bakery daily, to enjoy a shared Beesting.

We certainly needed a bit of exercise to work off some of the extra calories that we had consumed either at the Bakery of going out for meals and enjoying the Parma's at the Bridge Hotel and we also found a nice little Indian Restaurant that we frequented. We managed to go to the Echuca Bowls Club a couple of times for a roll up, their greens were certainly running very well, it was a bit of an effort to bend over and pick up the bowls after all that we had been consuming.

Our last couple of days there was at the beginning of the school holidays and the park certainly came alive. Echuca is a very popular destination for families. The grandparents would arrive and then their offsprings and grandchildren would rock up in either camper trailers or older style vans, out would come the bikes, scooters, totem tennis and balls. The poor ducks had to find another duck pond as the children took ownership of the pool.