Discovery Parks Echuca VIC

Drive through Echuca to come here and get ourselves settled in. This is a G'day Park that we have a membership for - there's a good deal on, so we get a really good sized site No. 137 for 4 nights for $90. No complaints from us - lovely tidy park with nice new amenities. The camp kitchen near us has 2 large ovens - so hope I get the chance to make some more biscuits. We get set up on our site - unhitched, awning and mat out, privacy screen up and chairs out. We're hungry so we decide to drive back into Echuca to get some lunch and find the Visitor Centre.
We return around 5pm, after we've done a small grocery shop from Coles. Unpack groceries, then open a bottle of bubbles to have while we sit outside our van relaxing and taking in our setting. Tea tonight, Roger is airfrying a couple of chicken snitzels which we serve up with a packaged salad. Very nice! After tea, Roger goes and has his shower, I work on updating my budget books - decide there's not too many dishes, so I'll leave them to do with the breakfast dishes tomorrow. Writing this up, then I'll get to bed too.
26/05/25 Monday Roger gets up first just after 7am, I lie in bed and read a book until 7.30am. I get up and go for a shower, as we want to do our washing - this way I can include my towels and PJ's. Roger waiting for me as we'll have a cooked breakfast while our washing on. I get back from my shower - Roger has finished stripping our bed so we can get our 2 loads of washing going - which we do, $5 per load. Roger cooks our bacon and egg specialty at the nearby camp kitchen BBQ - so I prepare our toast, garlic sauce, avocado, tomato and goats cheese etc there as well. Good timing, by the time we've had breakfast (yum) our washing is ready to hang out. We do that, then go and do our breakfast and last night's tea dishes in our caravan. Now going to wait around for our washing to dry - the weather is windy, but threatening to rain (turns out it doesn't). Good chance for me to bake some yoyo biscuits while Roger goes for a walk about this caravan park. This leads into lunch time - we have toasted crumpets, Roger has butter and golden syrup on his 4, I have marinated goats cheese on my 2. Have apples as well with our cuppas. Once we've got our washing in and packed away, we get organised to go for a drive into Echuca - we'll look for a toaster and a safety latch - both of these things need replacing in our caravan. Then we'll check out the wharf area. So off we go - we return here around 4.30pm. It's cold and windy so Roger packs more stuff away from outside ( he had already put the awning in before we left). We have a cuppa in the caravan and listen to an episode of a podcast 'Jake' that we're following. For tea tonight Roger is doing an Aldi roast chicken (marinated and deboned) with roast vegetables and some boiled vegetables - he prepares these and goes and cooks them in the camp kitchen- using the oven and stove there. I take some port over for us to have - along with instant gravy I'll make up to have with our meal. Roger is chatting with a lovely couple (older - married for 50 years), Mitch (retired plumber) and Mary Anne (retired Aged Care) they live near Coffs Harbour. We all end up eating our dinners together (theirs BBQ T-bone steak and vegetables done on the BBQ too and instant gravy as well). Very enjoyable meal together - we tried their seasoning salt on our roast vegetables - Chooki's - their grandson's 'side hustle' which is taking off. Must look it up Trychookis.com.au - very good seasoning! After our meal - the menfolk do the dishes while we all keep chatting, then we all agree we're ready to head back to our vans - so we say our goodnights. Roger goes and has his shower, we're now relaxing before bed. Roger reading, and I'm writing this up.
27/05/25 Tuesday Wake to the sound of gentle rain on the caravan - good excuse to have a lie in. Roger still gets up around 7.30am but I stay in bed reading until 8.30am. I'm planning to go for a 'at least' 20km walk today, just to feel how untrained I am for Serra Terror. If I don't injure myself today - I'd like to 'back it up' with another 20km walk tomorrow.....we'll see! Have a leisurely breakfast and then get my backpack sorted for my 'training' walk. Roger's going to drive me to my walk start point (about 7km away) - I'm using All trails App and am combining a couple of loop walks around Echuca. Roger drops me off at Lions Park just before 10.30am.
He collects me just before 3pm at the Aquatic Reserve - I'm tired but fine (no blisters) - happy with my walk - but well aware it was all 'flat' - not a rise or mountain in sight! We came straight back here to our campsite as Roger stayed in Echuca the whole time I was doing my walk. He said he went for a walk about the streets and found a bite to eat, then sat in the ute listening to True Crime podcasts until I arrived back. Roger starts working on changing the caravan's towing plug, while I go and have a shower to freshen up. Relax until tea - Roger does roast vegetables in the airfryer and some boiled vegetables too that we have with reheated roast chicken and fresh gravy. Roger goes and has his shower, I wash our dishes. Time to relax before bed - I might see what I can find to watch on Prime or iView? No....doesn't have good enough reception.
28/05/25 Wednesday Not raining this morning so happy to get up 7.30am. We have our breakfasts, then I get ready to go on my 'back to back' walk for my last minute ditch to get some kms in my legs to try and get me over the line for my Serra Terror Hike coming up. Not this weekend but the following! Roger's going to drop me off at the same spot as yesterday. We leave around 8.30am.
We return after I finish my walk, get back here before 1.30pm. Roger unpacks the groceries he's bought and has a sandwich (meat and salad) while I go and have a shower. After I get back we decide to do 1 load of washing. Roger takes care of all that - I'm resting in the caravan. I look to see what movies are showing today in Echuca's cinema - at least 3 that I wouldn't mind seeing...run it by Roger -he's happy to go to whatever I choose. I decide on the earliest one at 4.45pm, so I cook up tea, Creamy tomato and salami pasta in the Thermomix, so it can be ready to heat up and eat when we get back. We head off and make it just in time for the movie. We return just after 7pm. Reheat our pasta and eat, Roger also has dessert of yoghurt and banana. I've been 'snacking' on white chocolate coated freeze dried strawberries today - so I don't need anything else to eat now. Roger goes and has his shower, I wash the dishes. Relaxing (Rog reading, I'm writing this) before bed.
29/05/25 Thursday We get up around 7.30am and have leisurely breakfasts. We start our tidy up and organising to move out this morning. I decide to go and have a shower to relax my stiff muscles, while Roger gets our washing off the clothesline and continues getting us ready to leave. Once I'm ready, we leave this nice caravan park just before 10am.Read more