We’re back in Ballarat after our weekend visit to Echuca and Moama. We travelled north east on Friday (Sept. 2) up to the border between Victoria and New South Wales to stay at Kerry and Porky’s cabin. The drive was amazing through some very picturesque scenery. The route took us through some familiar towns, like Daylesford and Bendigo but continued north to a part of the country that was new to us.
This northern part of Victoria is very flat with lots of farmland. One of the main crops grown in this area is canola. We saw fields and fields of bright yellow canola flowers mixed with fields of sheep and some cattle. Most farmers can plant 3 crops in a year and this current crop should be harvested by the end of September.
We arrived at the cabin just after lunch (it’s about a 3 hour) drive and had a chance to look around the caravan park. There are lots of these holiday parks which are a combination of trailer sites and permanent small houses. Kerry and Porky’s cabin faces a little lake and is 2 stories tall with 3 bedrooms. It’s a really nice place to vacation in and was super quiet this time of year. The park itself was mostly empty with only a few campers brave enough to camp out. The park also runs alongside the Murray River. After all the rain of recent weeks, the river was very full and had flooded parts of the area around the holiday park.
On Saturday we visited Echuca / Moama. These 2 towns straddle the border – Echuca in Victoria and Moama in NSW. Echuca is an old logging port situated on the Murray River. It has a very cool historical part of town and some really nice little shops. We spent a few hours looking around the old port area and also doing a bit of shopping.
Moama is a smaller more residential town that has some nice walking trails. We spent some time on Sunday morning (Australia’s father day) walking along a trail that took us to the overflowed shores of the Murray. This river can be quite dangerous because it has a lot of current and with all the recent water, it was moving fast. We had a beautiful day for our walk and got some awesome photos!!
By the way, I am using a gallery format for some of the photos (I can add more photos this way!). To see these photos larger, just click on the first one and they will open into a slide show format. I have lots of photos so I will do 2 posts!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 