The Swan Hill line

The Swan Hill service is the long haul north, past Pyramid Hill's granite outcrops and Kerang's wetlands into true Mallee light.

Swan Hill rewards the distance: the Pioneer Settlement, riverfront walks and a warm, dry climate that makes even midwinter feel generous.

• Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement and the Giant Murray Cod

  A recreated riverside township with a night-time sound-and-light show, plus the big cod that has anchored every family photo since 1967.

• Kerang's ibis rookery and wetland lakes

  One of the largest ibis breeding colonies in the world sits in shallow lakes just out of town, thick with birds at dawn.

• Pyramid Hill's granite summit walk

  A lone granite dome rising from flat wheat country; twenty minutes up and the view runs uninterrupted in every direction.

• Riverfront red gum trails and local citrus

  Warm, dusty walking tracks along the Murray, with roadside citrus and stone fruit stands to raid on the way back.