Two photographers visiting Echuca from the Victorian Goldfields exchanged their wagon for a boat of river red gum of planks and rowed from Echuca to Goolwa in 1862.Taking photos of many of the properties along the way. They spent four months on the river and rowed 1700 kmCole and Burnett were fair dinkum recorders of our history - they were both photographers and had been cataloguing life on the goldfields when they swapped their wagon for a boat.Armed with a piece of canvas stretched across the boat as a darkroom (which may also have doubled as their sail), the pair were amongst the very earliest Victorian photographers, and throughout the four months it took them to reach journeys end they were always stopping to photograph homesteads, people and properties.