The Emmylou passes by

Camping by the Murray

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March 5th 2006
MORE PHOTOS TO BE ADDED SOON! Sean and I went to Echuca for the weekend. Echuca is a town situated on the Murray River, i.e. on the Victoria/New South Wales border. It's about 200km from Melbourne and the town of Moama lies opposite it on the NSW side of the river. In the 1800s ex-convict Henry Hopwood persuaded the government to establish a river port here and this led to th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Echuca

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more