So to dust off the caravan cobwebs we took it to Echuca for the final weekend of November. A familiar destination, somewhere we've been countless times. This time we were with a Canadian family, on exchange in Australia for a year.
It was also the first outing for the new tow vehicle. We stayed at Echuca Holiday Park - the closest to the town centre. Not the cheapest, but a great location.
This little guy came down out of a tree right by where we were sitting each evening, searching for any little tidbits he could find!
Having been on a few paddle steamers at Echuca, we found one we had not been on - PS Arbuthnott and enjoyed a leisurely paddle along the mighty Murray River.
The kids enjoyed a game of tennis at the caravan park:
We visited the 'Great Aussie Beer Shed' while in Echuca which was run by an interesting character and had lots of memorabilia related to farming, signage and of course, beers. A couple of unusual exhibits included an old bell, rung to signal final lap in a race at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics!
There was also an old soldier's memorial that once graced a public area of Echuca that the city decided to bury in a rubbish dump for a number of years! It was dug up and now sits in the beer shed. What were they thinking, these city leaders?
On the way home we stopped for some lunch in the pretty town of Rushworth, complete with knitted and crocheted Christmas decorations adorning the trees:
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