MURRAY RIVER PUBS PART TWO

Last month we featured a group of Murray River pubs and this month we continue our look at the great pubs that follow the mighty Murray.

Wahgunyah Victoria

Old Empire Hotel

Known to everyone simply as “Fairy’s” after a long-gone but still missed publican, this place is a cracker. Run by Christi and Brett, it’s the local for a good few ex-diggers from an Army retirement place up the road, workers from the Uncle Toby’s factory around the corner, random tradies, travellers in the know and sundry others all of whom seem to enjoy a bevy and a chat.

There’s no accommodation but if the tales of cramming 30 people into room 13 when the licensing cops used to call around to make sure it wasn’t trading on Sundays are anything to go by, you might be able to get by with throwing your swag in the carpark. But there’s no need. About 200 metres away there’s a top camping spot right beside the river complete with