Echuca to Bendigo.

18/02. Today we drove down to Moama to do a Paddle Steamer trip with Joan, Stan, Maureen and Les aboard the Emmylou. Those old timers sure did it tough back in the 1800's, but the foresight by the powers to be in them by gone days have gone a long way in preserving

the old buildings and steamers to there very pristine best.

I

got to have a beer in the Echuca Hotel, it was most refreshing.

Our Waeco freezer has broken down in all this hot weather and I have bought it into town to get it repaired.

We all went to the Golden Archers for a soft serve cone ( I had 3 ), they are all that I like at Macca's

20/02. Got away to an early start this morning and drove into the City of Bendigo.

Bendigo is the 2nd largest city in Victoria, only Melbourne is larger, plenty see and do here, we will make the most of it.

Top left - San and I in an old coach at the Bendigo Info Centre - Top Right - Talking Tram of Bendigo

Bottom Left - A statue given to Bendigo from Italy.

In Bendigo Gold was first found by 2 housewife's, it eventually turned into $9 Billion worth of Gold, making it the 7th richest gold field in the world.

Chinese Migrants came to Bendigo, in the 1860s in there search of gold and built there place of worship calling it "The Bendigo Josh House".