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Murray & Riverina A FORWARD TRAVEL PRIVATE JOURNEY MURRAY & RIVERINA EXPLORE THE RICHNESS OF THE RIVERS AND SURROUNDS 10-19 SEPTEMBER www.forwardtravel.com.au 1 Mildura ● Lake Tyrrell sunset Lake Tyrrell ● Sea Lake ● Rivers are the lifeblood of our country. They’re an escape from the everyday, and the perfect places to relax, reconnect and enjoy. We follow the winding waterways of the Murrumbidgee, Darling, and Murray Rivers on an amazing trail where we will be inspired by fascinating history, people, produce, natural wonders and charming towns they lead us through. Step aboard our boutique paddle steamer a for a luxurious 5 day luxury cruise on the upper Murray. The unique and private journey will be led by our co-founder Rose, and with only 15 places available, we suggest you book early. SOME OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: PADDLESTEAMER Emmylou The Emmylou was built in the 1980’s for 9 Exclusive charter of PS Emmylou for luxury Murray River Cruise travellers to recapture the majesty and 9 Limited to just 15 travellers romance of the paddle steamer era. She 9 Personally escorted by Forward Travel co-founder, Rose Toohey offers a luxurious boutique cruise from 9 Luxurious and spacious 36 seater coach with professional driver/guide Echuca. With a maximum of 16 guests and 4 9 Explore the historic towns in southern NSW and Victoria crew PS Emmylou is an open-air vessel 9 Cowra breakout memorial and Cherry Blossoms with alfresco dining and plenty of space 9 Tour the Shearers Hall of Fame in Hay to relax and enjoy the river views. Each 9 Visit remote outback villages and have lunch at an iconic pub luxury cabin with ensuite is individually air- 9 See the Darling and Murray Rivers meet for the first time in years conditioned for your comfort. So whether you are a nature lover, a budding historian 9 Be amazed and inspired by the Art Silos rejuvenating regional towns or culture enthusiast, a leisurely cruise 9 Have a cuppa and walk around an organic farm in The Riverina aboard PS Emmylou will delve you into 9 Sunset and hopefully mirror on Lake Tyrrell Victoria’s largest salt lake the beauty and pioneering history of the 9 Discover the amazing WWII history of Lake Boga Murray River. 9 Support regional communities after drought, fire, flood and lockdown 9 Wine taste at a family run vineyard on the Murray River 9 Explore over 190km’s cruising on Australian’s longest river 9 Daily excursions and all meals on the cruise 9 Comfortable hotel/motel accommodation with private facilities 9 Breakfast and lunch daily 9 Welcome and farewell dinners included 2 1300 738 168 SKIP THE AIRPORT, LEAVE YOUR PASSPORT AT HOME AND JOIN OUR PRIVATE TOUR BY ROAD AND RIVER AROUND NSW & VICTORIA Bathurst ● ● Portland Rankin Springs ● ● Weethalle ● Cowra ● Wentworth ● Grenfell Mildura ● ● Penarie ● Hay Lake Tyrrell ● ● Lake Boga Sea Lake ● ● Echuca ● Albury ● Rutherglen PADDLESTEAMER Emmylou ● Overnight stops in blue ● Some highlighted stops in pink The Emmylou was built in the 1980’s for travellers to recapture the majesty and romance of the paddle steamer era. She offers a luxurious boutique cruise from Echuca. With a maximum of 16 guests and 4 SUPPORTING REGIONAL COMMUNITIES crew PS Emmylou is an open-air vessel with alfresco dining and plenty of space Our regional communities are doing it tough. Droughts, fires, and floods have all caused havoc, and then the virus to relax and enjoy the river views. Each came and they lost tourism as well. Part of our hope for these tours is to support the communities we visit. We want luxury cabin with ensuite is individually air- to meet and mingle with the locals, get an understanding of their lives, and spend money in their local businesses. conditioned for your comfort. So whether Supporting bush businesses is a simple way to invest in the future of our rural communities. you are a nature lover, a budding historian or culture enthusiast, a leisurely cruise aboard PS Emmylou will delve you into the beauty and pioneering history of the Murray River. www.forwardtravel.com.au 3 The Hay Plains DAY 1. SYDNEY TO COWRA DAY 2. ART SILOS, ORGANIC SHEEP spectrum of colours as the sun sets over Meet your fellow travellers and head FARM, COUNTRY SUNSET IN HAY the plains. west across the Blue Mountains to A short drive to Grenfell, where another Overnight Hay our first Silo Art work in Portland. Silo impressive Art silo awaits. Henry Lawson Meals: BL Art began in 2015 and has been was born in the goldfields near here in rejuvenating rural towns across 1867, and many a bushranger roamed DAY 3. SHEARERS HALL OF FAME, Australia, and is now the largest the countryside including Ben Hall. OUTBACK VILLAGES, WENTWORTH outdoor gallery in the World. We’ll visit Keep an eye out for the big ‘Gold Hay was one of Australia’s major wool several silos on our journey. Pick and Pan’ constructed under the growing areas, and a visit to the Shear Drive to Bathurst and into the Gold Rush supervision of the Grenfell Men’s Shed. Outback centre takes to you into the era of Cobb & Co. coaches. In 1862 to remember Grenfell’s role in the gold rich life in the wool industry in early Bathurst became the headquarters of era during the mid to late 1860s. NSW. We’ll take the backroad through Cobb & Co, once the world’s largest Follow the art silo trail to the tiny village seemingly endless saltbush plains, that coach network, travelling 45,000km of Weethalle. The silo here is a tribute are home to over 50 farming families. each week, with 600 horses harnessed to the rich agricultural heritage of the Tiny villages are the social hub for many every day. Drive south to Cowra, a small community. of the large outback stations, where life charming town in the beautiful Lachlan can often be lonely. We’ll have lunch Valley. In 1944 the largest Prisoner We call in to meet the oweners of a at The Homebush Hotel at Penarie, a of War breakout in modern military a sheep and grain farm just a short true country pub. history saw over a thousand Japanese drive from here. They’ll walk us around The pub opened in 1878 and is still the prisoners stage a mass escape here. the home paddock and share their mainstay of the local community. The There is now a long-lasting friendship life on the farm, their environmental famous bar, with its huge central open between the people of Cowra and approach, and coping with things out fireplace, character filled “shearing Japan, with many reminders to the past of their control. Have a cuppa and board” mural, and local artefacts events. We’ll have time at the POW scones and take in the beautiful rolling has been home to many a trapper, site, and hopefully the famous Cherry hills of the Cocopaira Ranges. teamster, drover, shearer, truckie, Blossoms will be in bloom. mailman, traveller and ‘local’ over Overnight Cowra Driving west to Hay, the country the past 142 years. Follow the river Meals: BLD spreads, and the sky seems to get to Trentham Estate, a family-owned bigger. We know the perfect place to winery on the banks of the Murray for see our first ‘big sky’ sunset with the full SILO ART PROJECT Weethalle The Australian Silo Art Movement is Grenfell the largest outdoor gallery in the world, stretching over 7,500 km with 35 silos, and 60 water towers so far and many more to come. It’s a great drawcard to encourage people to travel to places they have never heard of and help boost the local economies as well. 4 1300 738 168 Meeting of the rivers Farm lands in Riverina some wine tasting before we head near the township of Sea Lake. The dark wheelhouse about the rich history of to Wentworth. In the late 1800’s and endless sky provides the perfect the river and PS Emmylou. As the sun Wentworth was the largest river port in environment to view the dazzling starts to set over the river, time for an Australia with over 400 boats plying the constellations. If there is any water on evening cocktail before your welcome Murray and Darling Rivers which meet the lake, the elusive mirror effect may dinner. Listen to the river birds evening here. be possible. chorus, watch for kangaroos, wombats, Overnight Wentworth Overnight Sea Lake egrets and many other species of birds Meals: BL Meals: BL as the stars begin to appear. Tonight, we moor at the famous Perricoota DAY 4. MEETING OF THE RIVERS, DAY 5. LAKE BOGA, ECHUCA Station. Rich in history, the property was Option for a sunrise return to the lake first settled by James Maiden in 1843, MILDURA, LAKE TYRRELL and famous for starring in the TV movie In April this year, the Darling River before breakfast. Visit the impressive art “All the River Run” where PS Emmylou flowed all the way from its catchment in silo, painted in October 2019, depicting was renamed PS Providence. Queensland, to the Murray River for the the bush dreaming and night sky. Overnight: PS Emmylou first time in 2 years. Drive east to Lake Boga, where, in MEALS: BLD Take a walk along the banks of the World War II the town served as a top- junction of the rivers – a culmination secret repair base for Catalina aircraft of water from Queensland, NSW and and played a critical role in the Allied DAY 6. MURRAY RIVER CRUISING Victoria heading to the Southern War effort, with over 1,000 planes being Take yourself on a self-guided walk Ocean in South Australia.
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