Today we drove from Wagga Wagga to Echuca and “google” took us on some fabulous backroads. Many of these roads we had not travelled on before so that was a good thing. We drove through many interesting small towns as we drove from, the Murrumbidgee River to the River Murray. Several times today we crossed from NSW to Vic. depending on what side of the Murray we were on. The scenery was beautiful with more canola crops, flocks of sheep and dairy cows, orchards of fruit trees and even some huge glasshouses full of tomatoes being grown, hydroponically. Much of the water used for all these activities was being drawn from the rivers and we passed over many irrigation channels. We called into the small town of Berrigan for coffee which boasted of being the birthplace of Federation….not sure about that but will do some investigating. Travelling on smaller roads, we had very little traffic, hardly any roads trains, but it seems that all the farmers were out on the roads today moving large pieces of machinery. We had to overtake several very large pieces of farm machinery; some being pulled by tractors and others just being driven by the farmer. We arrived in Echuca around lunchtime, set up the van, did some washing and then headed out. We drove out to the “Rich River Golf Club Resort” (which looked like it sounded) a huge golfing, tennis, croquet centre with beautiful accommodation areas and a clubhouse that provides meals and drinks, of course. Rob booked himself in here for a game tomorrow morning. From here we drove into the Port of Echuca and went for a walk along the riverside. I will probably spend the morning here while Rob is golfing. We had checked out a few of the creeks and the river for kayaking but they are all flowing too fast at the moment, so I’ll give it a miss.
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