The Murray River, also known as The Mighty Murray. Mildura is in the northern area of the State of Victoria. Mildura is known for growing citrus fruit especially oranges, wine and supply 80% of grapes to the State of Victoria. You can take a ride on steamboats, hire a boat house to 'do' part of the Murray River if you wish. It's 1,092 kms (678m mile) from Launceston where we live. It takes 18 hours and 22 minutes as we have to go across the sea, Bass Strait then drive there.
We took our car on the ship (ferry) in 2003, stayed in motels each night.
I'm enjoying being reminded of what I've seen with wonderful memories.
The camera I used was a Samsung Digimax 350SE and I had the date set to come onto the photos, some photos I've taken the date off. It was about this time that I became interested in photography.
Did you know?
Tasmania is the world's 26th largest Island. Tasmania has an area of 90,758km2 located 240 km off the southeast of Australia. There are 334 other islands that lie just off Tasmania, ranging from rocky outcrops to three sizeable, inhabited islands.
House boats above then steamboat.
Good place to fish.
The George Chaffey Bridge in the distance which was opened in 1985. George and his brother founded the irrigation colonies in the Mildura area, they were Canadian.
I recall that we brought some beautiful oranges from this place along the road from Mildura.
The road north from Mildura.
What a beautiful place to visit. Nice memories!
ReplyDeleteOh it is lovely there Bill. We take these photos and once in a while it's so pleasant to look at them.
DeleteMargaret, thank you for showing us a very beautiful place that, with the world's tourism, I believe, few of us know about
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome Norma, I expect I will show a few more photos of various places we have travelled within Australia over time, especially photos I've not shown before.
DeleteThe river, the bridge and the surrounding environment are very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBut what I really liked is the riverboat, like it's out of some old movie!!
Thank you so much Margaret!!
That riverboat is just gorgeous, and like you say it looks like out of a movie. You are welcome Katerina.
DeleteI could sit there and fish all day.
ReplyDeleteYou could fish all day. That particular day there were several fishing.
DeleteSome of the fish you can catch are as follows - Trout, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Catfish, and the occasional Trout Cod.
My brother would totally love fishing there!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds good then Angie, he's would be bound to catch several.
DeleteThat orange is terrifying! 😂
ReplyDeletelol Sandi. He cute that orange with a smiling face and the oranges from memory were just so sweet and juicy. You know the kind where the juice runs down your chin!
DeleteCanadians are good entrepreneurs. : )
ReplyDeleteSeems so Catarina. 👏
DeleteI find being on or near water very relaxing. If ever I become rich I would love to have a home on the water.
ReplyDeleteWater seems to make one feel relaxed EC. Be nice living on a houseboat on the Murray as long as the weather stayed fairly calm. As we travelled by round along parts of the Murray we would often see houseboats.
DeleteThroughout the 50s and early 60s, all holidays in my family went no further north than the state border. So I have very fond memories of Mildura and Swan Hill.
ReplyDeleteAt least you stayed in your State, and it is a lovely place Mildura. Like Swan Hill too, it's nice.
DeleteBeen to Mildura a couple of times once as a child and once as an adult both times many years back. No I did not know those facts about Tassie, thanks for sharing them with us.
ReplyDeleteNice there at Mildura. You are welcome about the facts, Jo-Anne.
DeleteSchöne Bilder von der Reise dadurch sind die Erinnerungen wieder lebendig.
ReplyDeleteGruß
Noke
Thank you Noke. Yes, memories come flooding back, thank goodness they are all good.
DeleteBeen there a couple of times on my way from West Wyalong, central NSW to
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Prosperous area - sheep, cattle, orchards and tourism - the river boats for hire etc.
Also very much into the horse and trotting racing scene. Trialing young horses
in that area and then if good a trip of Melbourne or Adelaide for a plunge.
Ah yes - many a good-un from that part of Australia.
Cheers
Colin
You have nice memories of there too it seems Colin.
DeleteOh man. That George chaffey bridge with the steamboat is so lovely.
ReplyDeleteShame you didn't go on the steamboat itself. :)
The road to mildura is amazingly shot.
Thank you, Liam.
DeleteWe have had plenty of opportunities to go on a steamboat from there and other places where the steamboats leave from, but we were always in a hurry to go further north to warmer climate in the winter.
We stayed in Mildura on our way to and from Broken Hill. I quite liked the town, our motel room was nice and there was quite a bit to see in the area. Travelling north from Mildura we saw a roadside stand offering free oranges.
ReplyDeleteFree oranges, oh gosh, that would have been nice as oranges in that area were delicious when we've passed by and so on.
DeleteI returned to blogland just in time. A friend is going on a Murray River cruise next week. I can challenge her to bring back better photos than these. :) It won't happen, yours are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWas wondering if you was alright there Pauline.
DeleteOh I'm sure she will have beautiful photos of the area.
Thank you.
The orange building stands out and caught my attention the most. The good old Murray is charming
ReplyDeleteYou see the orange from a short distance from memory and I suppose it's still there, could be gone as things are always changing.
DeleteWhat a beautiful place it is there.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful memories.
I wish you a beautiful new week.
Greetings Irma
Thank you Irma.
DeleteYo me habría quedado pescado. Me han encantado tus lindos recuerdos. Feliz semana Margaret. Besos.
ReplyDeleteThank you Teresa.
DeleteI haven't thanked you for a while--- your posts are always delightful, and it's as close as I'm likely to ever be to seeing Tasmania and other parts of Australia. So--- THANKS!
ReplyDeleteThank you Bill. You are most welcome.
DeleteBeautiful photos, it is a joy to see the rivers so full with so much water and those beautiful landscapes
ReplyDeleteHappy week.
Greetings.
Thank you Jose. It is a might river that goes a long way.
DeleteI enjoyed Victoria very much and have wonderful memories, but Tasmania has it beat - no contest!
ReplyDeleteSeems you have a very soft heat for Tasmania, David.
DeleteI would love to visit the area!
ReplyDeletehugs
Donna
I'm sure you would enjoy it Donna.
DeleteA trip in that steam boat along the great Murray River looks like fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it would be Rosemary, each time we've been there always a long que for a ticket and have a ride.
DeleteLovely memory.
ReplyDeleteYes Anne, it is.
DeleteLooks like a lovely trip. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good trip and thank you.
DeleteSuch a lovely look back to 2003, nice memories for you.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Yes lovely memories Jan.
DeleteLovely place..nicely captured Margaret
ReplyDeleteThank you Ashok.
DeleteWhat a cool and unique place. I wonder if I could catch the biggest fish there!?!
ReplyDeleteYou might, the last big Murray Cod was caught in 1902. The Murray Cod is Australia's largest freshwater fish. The biggest recorded was 1.8m long and weighed 113kg! It'd deemed to be between 76 and 144 years old.
DeleteEs un bello lugar, tan apacible. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteYes, peaceful in quiet times.
DeleteHello Margaret
ReplyDeleteBeautiful memories, and photos allow you to preserve the memory and even small details from the past. A beautiful and distant trip, as you can see on the map, which was worth the effort because the memories you describe are very nice. Regards.
Yes, wonderful memories from back then.
DeleteMildura is a place I always wanted to visit but never did get there. I enjoyed a TV cooking show with an Italian Chef who lived and worked in Mildura. Always wanted to go after that.
ReplyDeleteWell I suppose we can't visit every town in Australia or anywhere for that matter. Don't recall that cooking show but it often happens when we see places on TV in any form that we want to go there...it's a normal thing I reckon Diane.
DeleteBuena serie de imagenes de ese vapor navegando por el rio
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