Our day started off in Swan Hill after spending the night at Hill Top Resort on the annual pilgrimage to Falls Creek. First stop was Lake Boga to grab a cache at the Cannie Ridge Pump. This is the first time that we have seen Lake Boga with water in it for a long time. I would say with the floodings from last weekend and heavy rain would have something to do with it.
After grabbing a few of the Geocaching Australia Burke and Wills geocaches, it was time for stop at Echuca. We joined the masses down at Paddlesteamer Park or what is left of it to watch the River Murray flow past. Most of the park is now under water and the Paddlesteamers are firmly tethered to the bank. They are not in operation at the moment as the current is too strong. It would be a quick trip downstream and you probably wouldn’t get back again.
After lunch at Beechworth Bakery and a few caches in Echuca including the difficult Port of Call, we kept following the Murray Valley Highway to Shepparton. There is still a lot of water around after last weeks floods from the Goulburn River and a lot of debris against fences but no roads cut.
The trip continued through Benalla to the Hume Freeway then off onto the Snow Road through Millawa, Myrtleford, Happy Valley to Mt Beauty. We couldn’t see any snow on the way up but there was a lot of cloud covering the mountains.
We even had 2 sets of traffic lights on the drive up but that was due to the roadworks to fix up the road after last weeks landslides. We finally saw some snow about 3kms from the Resort Entry 🙂
It was then time to empty the car, fill up the Oversnow and settler in to our home for the next week – Schuss Ski Lodge.
