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Everyone loves Echuca-Moama, home of Moama Bowling Club!
Our twin towns comprise of one of the most important and exciting heritage tourism destinations in Australia.
In the late 1800s, hundreds of wood-fired paddlesteamers churned up and down the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee rivers, carrying huge cargoes of wool, grain, timber and other produce from the inland.
It was an era of wild and colourful rivermen, of eccentric and courageous skippers whose names have become legends; and of natural disasters overcome with bravery and determination. All this was captured in the much-loved Australian TV mini-series “All The Rivers Run,” filmed entirely on location in Echuca.
Echuca was the hub of the old-time riverboat trade, where the boats came to unload their goods onto the newly built railway which carried them down to Melbourne, to be sent out all over the world.
Filled with boisterous characters and raw ambition, this pioneering town was ripe with fortunes to be made and lost, Echuca was the most important inland port in the nation at the time.
Everyone loves Echuca-Moama, home of Moama Bowling Club!
Our twin towns comprise of one of the most important and exciting heritage tourism destinations in Australia.
Paddlesteamer capital of the world
Echuca boasts the largest operating paddlesteamer fleet in the world –
and shows it off with night-time sailpasts and spectacular fireworks at
the authentically restored wharf.
Fresh air and nature
Out of town, visitors love camping, hiking, fishing, swimming, water-skiing, canoeing, horse-riding, bike riding, and touring the forests. Close by are the tranquil box ironbark forests, old open-cut mine and ghosts of miners...Major events
Blues, jazz, Celtic, you name it, we have the festival. As well as steam celebrations and re-enactments. And the Southern 80, the world’s biggest waterski race.