Mildura is beautiful, and Australia's fruit bowl, we purposely didn't stock up on any fresh fruit and veg, knowing we would enter the fruit fly quarantine area, but now we are in it, there is so much fruit available and at prices you just can't imagine, the fruit is sweet and delicious.
Wentworth was also a beautiful town, one of the oldest towns in this region. It is situated at the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, also home to Lock No. 10 and we had great fun watching the houseboats go up or down in the lock depending which way they were heading.
The Darling and Murray junction.
From Mildura we found a few bush camps along the Murray before coming into Swan Hill.
Swan Hill, is another Gem on the Murray, the Pioneer Settlement, was a couple of days well spent.
I can't rave enough about it, along with the General admission we did the PYAP cruise up the Murray and the night time Light and Sound show. It took us two days to get around all the displays, even catching the horse and cart or one of the vintage vehicles running around the settlement didn't save us any time in traversing the grounds. The highlight for the girls was dressing up in the period costumes,
or for Grace having her Wanted poster printed "Wanted for causing Havoc and Mayhem" who would have figured? I can't choose between the old favourites lolly shop or the Tea Rooms (Food heavily influencing my descision), Les enjoyed the old engineering shops, the equipment is still used today to assist with the up keep of the settlement and all their machinery.
Caravans have changed a lot over the last 100 years. Thank goodness
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