We passed Horseshoe Bend and pulled up on a beach for a muesli bar break where we chatted with a Western Australian lady with a South African accent who was camped there with her husband. They were on 5 weeks holiday and had crossed the Nullabor. As she said, if you live in the West you have to drive long distances.
From there we passed a primary school group visting an historic punt site. I was hoping they would give us a wave but alas they were actually listening to their teachers.
Finally after 11 days of paddling (for Simon and I) we reached the Port of Echuca which was busy with paddle steamers catering for tourists.
Once off the water we booked into the caravan park and Tony and I caught a taxi to Yarrawonga. At $281.50 it cost us almost $2 a kilometre to get to Tony's car. He then drove me to Albury to get my car and then we returned to Echuca.
In the evening we went to the Shamrock Hotel and met up with Pam and Geoff and Peter Philips. Peter has paddled to the whole of the Murray as well as the Goulburn. His blog is excellent echuca-murraymouthkayakjourney.blogspot.com.au
Dinner was very good and it was a lovely evening with fellow paddlers. Can't wait to to start paddling the next leg Echuca to Swan Hill or perhaps Mildura.
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