Loddon Floodway is a free camp area on Pental Island in The Murray region. It is on the northern section of the island on the banks of the Murray River. The island is accessed from one of two bridges, either from the southern end of Swan Hill or just east of Lake Boga via Fish … Read more
Pental Island is an inland island bound by the Murray River and the anabranch Little Murray River. Little Murray River is on the southern side of the island, with the New South Wales and Victoria border along the Murray River on the north side, making Pental Island part of Victoria. An anabranch is when a … Read more
The Giant Murray Cod is at Swan Hill, a monument to the large cod fish that have been caught in the Murray River. The monument is 15 metres long, 5 metres high, and 3 metres wide. It was originally built in 1991 as a prop in 1992 for the movie Eight Ball, a movie about … Read more
The river cruises in Swan Hill is operated at the Pioneer Settlement open air museum. The cruise is on the PS Pyap, a paddlesteamer built at Mannum in South Australia in 1896, and was a floating store for the Eudunda Farmers Cooperative, selling to settlers and settlements along the Murray River before being sold for … Read more
The Pioneer Settlement is a museum in Swan Hill set on the edge of the Little Murray River. It started with the paddlesteamer PS Gem purchased in the 1960s to be an art gallery, and added some buildings in the style of the Mallee region to be around it. Some buildings we donated, others were … Read more
The Lake Boga Flying Boat Museum is at Lake Boga near Swan Hill. The museum was started as an exhibit of the Catalina A24-30 in the open air and the use of an original secret communication bunker from World War II as a commemoration to the service men and women who served at Lake Boga. … Read more
As Australian as football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars! You can appreciate all these in different ways, but some ways are better than others. Watch the football on TV or head to the game at the stadium, have a four and twenty at home or drop in to Yatala Pies, and watch an Attenborough … Read more
Yatala Pies has to be one of the most well known pie shops in Australia, even if you have only seen the brown signs travelling between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. It has such historical significance in Queensland it is on the Q150 list, with the Q150 icon on the brown sign. Yatala Pies has … Read more
Natural Bridge is a rock formation, making an arch over Cave Creek. The arch is made from the waterfall cut a hole through to a cave. The cave is home to glow worms and micro bats. It is about a 1km walk through the rainforest, winding down towards the rock arch. The enclosed rainforest canopy for … Read more
The Historical Port on the Murray River in Echuca was built in 1865 to support sawmills in the area. The wharf is three stories high, and in its heyday supported a fleet of paddle steamers larger than anywhere in the world, until the late 1880s when trains and trucks took over the transport of goods. … Read more
