Road Trip 2016 - Day 19 (26th July) - Jeez it's cold here in Echuca!!

Today is the coldest morning we have had so far I think. We both shower up as soon as we rise - to get the towels on the line and hopefully dried a bit before leaving this morning.

We have our breakfast and cups of tea over in the camp kitchen and meet up with another couple staying in the park.

As can happen this did slow us down this morning ---- as we we enjoying chatting about our respective previous travels and exchanging some info. C'est La Vie!!!!

It's a damp pack up - and we are then on our way making for Echuca - only about 100 km away.

It is interesting that the scenery along our travels today has changed from the vineyards and orchards - to dairy cattle farming.

We make a few stops along the way exploring some of the little places we pass through - but we are in Moama (the NSW side of the Murray from Echuca) camp all set up and soon heading into Echuca for a late lunch.

We find a lovely little cafe for lunch - at the old Echuca Post Office - and thankfully it's nice and warm. Outside in Echuca this afternoon is damm freezing!!

We then spend a bit of time to explore around the Historic Port of Echuca 

Check out the wooden wheels on this cart for transporting logs!!

The historic Port of Echuca has quite a number of restored and replica paddle steamers that are in use for the tourists - to gain some idea of travel on the rivers in days gone by when the inland waterways were heavily used as a transport mode for transfer of goods to market.

These markers - on the tree - indicate where previous floodwaters have risen to.

The highest marker is 1870 - then 1975 and 1974. All certainly well above the current water eleven here in the Murray in Echuca. 

It's then off down town to explore some more of Echuca - it's a very old town - with numerous old buildings

With a coffee break calling - we find our way to the Bakery

--- and at the rear of the bakery -overlooking a creek - there are two beautiful parrots just waiting for their photo to be taken

With the coldness setting in late in the afternoon we make our way back to our campsite in Moama - at Merool on the Murray.

We are lucky here to have a fantastic camp kitchen all to ourselves - and it's air conditioned - so warm we are stripping down to t-shirts in there. 

So dinner is cooked in the camp kitchen tonight and we hang out there reading and me catching up on the blog.