A big birthday kiss

Plus a seafood dinner tonight!

Birthday breakfast on the Murray

Roy is spoiling me today. Breakfast at a Bistro restaurant on the Murray, lunch in Swan Hill and a seafood feast tonight.

Maybe we'll chuff along to Mildura tomorrow. And maybe we won't.

Being totally in charge of our own schedule is a big responsibility.

The ghosts of river towns, Victoria

Roy remembering his children's novel Paddle-Ghosts

More paddle ghosts

Poor kids of yesteryear - under the lofty gaze of teacher's desk, and Queen Victoria

Pioneer village, Swan Hill

I saved this goose from a fish-hook in his bill - and made a constant camp friend 

From Echuca to Swan Hill... absolute Murray frontage

If we were any closer to the Murray, we'd be in it!

Loved Echuca. Even the name sounds like the pant of a paddle wheeler's exhaust..... echuca-chuca-chuca..

But this setting at Swan Hill is even more amazing. Heaven. We're just enjoying a bottle of wine and pinching ourselves!

Breakfast Echuca Victoria, dinner Moama NSW

Breakfast on a branch of the Murray, Victoria. Last night we crossed a bridge to dine in NSW

Amusing warning in a shop, Echuca

 

 

Floating a Murray paddlewheeler on the dew

It was said that in a drought, a skilled Murray River Captain could float his paddlewheeler on the dew

Fortunately there seems to be a bit more water than that around right now and the river current is quite strong, with more water on the way.

Port of Echuca

Paddle Ghosts - Echuca, Victoria

 A unique Australian riverland tree - The Thong Tree

We're at the historic port of Echuca on The Murray in Victoria - paddlewheeler capital of Australia.
It reminds us of a children's novel Roy wrote years ago: "Paddle Ghosts".
A great site - we hope to be staying for a while.

Back on the road again - and in a Melbourne laneway

Easter, Melbourne