I wrote about a few towns in my last text, How it all began… , about which you probably don’t know anything yet. So keep reading if you wanna find out more about them and my storie how everything began.
It all started in Nyah
It’s actually a pretty funny story how I ended up in Echuca, or maybe it was more a spontaneous thing. I was staying on a campground in Nyah, about 3 hours away from Echuca, and I was looking for farmwork since a few weeks, well let’s say I wasn’t lucky in finding one, but then a friend organized a place to work for a few people, me included. So I was lucky in the end. The only thing was we had to leave Nyah on that day about 3 hours later, because we had to start working the next morning. So I packed my stuff in a hurry, which was a lot at that time, and got a ride to Echuca that night. What an experience, but worth it. One thing I learned working in Australia, be spontaneous!
First stop: Echuca
So I was working there for about a week, getting up early and coming back late, before I even had time to take a stroll through Echuca and discover the town, but when I finally did that, it was stunning.
Echuca is a town located in Victoria in between two rivers, the Murray and the Campaspe River, beautiful to have so much water around you and it’s never far away. One thing about me, I love open water, it just relaxes and calms me down. So rewarding. I mean the Ocean is the best, but a big river is better than no river at all.
Echucas History
And those rivers, especially the Murray River and Echuca being close to Melbourne is the reason for it being a thriving river port city in the 19th centurie. It’s having a beautiful wharf which is listed as a heritage place on the Australian National Heritage List. Quite an interesting construction though and a lot of Paddle Steamers, the biggest collection of Paddle Steamers in the world by the way. It’s also home of the world’s oldest operating wooden hulled Paddle Steamer, the PS Adelaide built in 1866. And you can go on those historical Paddle Steamers and they’ll take you for a tour on the Murray River, beautiful.
Names and interesting facts
An interesting fact, the aboriginal name for Echuca means “meeting of the water” which is quite precise in describing that town.
And another interesting thing about Echuca it has a twin town called Moama. You just cross the Murray and you are in a different town, you could think it’s one, but no they are separate from each other. Isn’t that weird to have to small towns next to each other?
The Sweet Meadow Café
Always when I took a stroll around the town, I eventually came to a vegan café called Sweet Meadow. The food was amazing and it’s a beautiful small place, you can feel the love with which it was designed. I never liked brownies or chocolate things, but they have such amazing chocolate brownies, yum! Don’t miss that spot when you visit Echuca.
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