ECHUCA

We left Bridgewater today around 11am after saying our goodbyes to our friends at BlazeAid. We had planned to depart yesterday but we didn't return from a shopping trip into Bendigo until 7pm. Daisy & Lesley also had a haircut in Bendigo. After calling into the butcher shop at Inglewood to buy some fabulous local meat we headed north feeling sad to be leaving all our friends at Bridgewater BlazeAid which has been our home for the last six weeks. Our friend, Lorraine had left last week for the Easter markets in Goolwa then onto Wallaroo in S.A.! Last night we received a wonderful "thank you" card from Brett & Carlie Collins, who own the farm that we have been helping with flood repair and preparing for canola seeding and we have promised them that we will try to return around september\october to see all the paddocks covered in yellow canola flowers.

So heading north away from Bridgewater we called in to Mt. Terrick Terrick conservation park south of Echuca, but decided to camp closer to Echuca so we can have a good look around there tomorrow morning before moving on eastwards along the River Murray. Around 3pm we found a campsite about 4kms outside Echuca called "Wharparilla Flora Reserve Rest Area" where we setup camp for the night and another motorhome and two caravans also pulled up later as well. But we really enjoyed two of  the huge T-Bone steaks we purchased this morning in Inglewood