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Images from a short winter break in the colonial-era river port of Echuca, on the banks of the Murray.
The Murray was not always a lazy river. The leisurely paddlesteamer cruises of today belie the busy 19th-century traffic up and down the Murray-Darling waterway system, from mid-western New South Wales to the river mouth in South Australia. In the era when Australia "rode on the sheep's back", paddlesteamers carried all manner of supplies to outlying towns and sheep stations (i.e. farms and ranches) and transported their wool bales back to the railhead at Echuca.
2019: Images from a return visit in spring time.
These images were taken with Nikon D300 using RAW format, and are available for licensing. .
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Cathryn | 12-Jun-2016 21:48 | |