Yesterday's outing.

[Kobione]

We decided to have a day out and headed for a place called Echuca, 170 odd klms away. It's a nice town with a lovely historic river port, being the meeting place of 3 rivers - that's what the name means in the aboriginal language - 'meeting of the waters'. The day didn't work out quite as well as we would have liked. We didn't get into the Port of Echuca area as there were 3 school trips on, so about 200 or so school children around. We will be going back at some stage, as this was partly a geo-caching trip.

 

This is the impressive entrance to a lovely riverside park. Harvesting of Red Gum played a significant part in the economy of this region, and still does, and this gate was constructed totally of local timber, long ago.

 

 

In the park is a well maintained picnic area, overlooking the river:

 

 

We sat and ate our lunch, which, although being 200 lkms from the coast came from a place that has been awarded the honour of 'The Best Fish & Chip Shop' in Victoria, for the last 5 years. This lunch is called 'It Takes Two'!

 

 

We saw a couple of these coming in to pick up tourists. This is not the most famous, but it is a nice one:

 

 

 

And we saw a Noisy Minah, which refused to stay still!

 

 

Hopefully our next trip will show you more of the historic area.

 

 

 

 

[Guest Lee]

A really good set of images taking us through your day, I like that sort of thing.....I also like your dinner!!!

[NannyFerret]

Thanks for sharing these, Kobione. I always enjoy looking at your shots and your way of life over there.

Lovely to see the birds that are kept mainly in cages here, enjoying their freedom in their native country.

[Barbara]

I just love my visits to your part of the world

Thanks Kobione

[Heather]

im hungry now   nice set of images Kobione 

[Denis]

I particulary like the gateway to the park, what an elaborate construction and by the look of it very well maintained.

 

While the food certainly looks appetising, what was it? By that I mean what type of fish, what are the rings and wheres the chips!

[bugmeister]

More please, these are a great record of what may be ordinary down under but something we just can't see enough of.

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[Kobione]

Thanks all for your nice comments. We will return and hopefully get a few more that show you what the place is really like, in the historic sense.

 

I should have also pointed out that the Murray River, that you see in these pictures is actually the border between Victoria and New South Wales, so the background behind the paddle steamer is NSW. The water levels in the river are also significantly down.

 

Denis the gate was hand constructed, prior to 1884 and Red Gum is a particularly hardy wood. Today the square ends are used to house a small pumping station that supplies water to the adjoining caravan park, so yes, it is still very well maintained. Lunch - It Takes Two - consists of: 4 pieces of fish of the day, (in this instance Flake, which is Gummy Shark), 4 Calamari rings, 4 Scallops, 4 Seafood Sticks, and a generous serving of chippies, which are underneath that lot!! The entire lunch was YUM

 

Bugs, that what I try to get, although the pictures may not be perfect, I always hope they have some 'interest'

[NannyFerret]

I really enjoy seeing how the other side of the world live, and also other peoples pics in different parts of our own country. 

Its so interesting.