We decided to take a quick trip up the highway to look at a deco hotel at a small town call "Bridgewater", but on discovering that it was a one hotel town and we planned to close the pub for most of the week, we would quickly become the towns most unpopular people.

So we drove on and spent the night in Echuca, famed for its paddle steamers and port. Unfortunately as you can see from the pic the drought is having a major impact on the rivers and this is all that's left of the great Campaspie river