It was time to leave Melbourne today. I was quite sad to leave Melbourne behind as it's been great here. It's much better than the Melbourne I remember of 20 years ago. I would currently rate it as my second favourite Australian city after Perth. I'll see how it fares in a month or so though as Sydney is yet to be visited. We hit the road after brekkie and drove out down the Mornington Peninsula which curves round Port Phillip Bay. The intention was to stay on on...

It had been raining on and off all night but by morning the rain was torrential and looked like it was set in for the day. The stream nearby which was a trickle yesterday was now a raging torrent. Luckily it was in a dip and unlikely to flood us out. We had intended to get the bus into the city after breakfast but decided to delay the journey for as long as we could in the hope that the rain would ease. We had to make a dash for the amenities block. We had one wa...

Despite the heat we had a good nights sleep as we were absolutely knackered. We got up late and after a leisurely brekkie we went to find a Big W to do some shopping. The shopping centre was nicely air conditioned and you forget just how hot it is outside. When we came out it was like walking into an oven. It was incredibly hot again today. We then put Pin Oak Court in the suburb of Vermont South into the Tom Tom and off we went. For those of you who don't know P...

We both slept eventually but were awake before the ship's wake up announcement at ten past five. We were absolutely knackered. The sea was very calm now as we were within Port Phillip Bay. We were both very keen to get off the ferry and be back on the Australian mainland. We got the call to go to the car deck and went to find our little home. She was patiently waiting for us. At last we were off and driving down the ramp onto Melbourne's early morning streets. It...

It was raining when we woke up this morning but it stopped soon after and was getting sunny. We have been very lucky with the weather in Tasmania as usually they have a lot of rain. In the three weeks we've been here it's only rained twice and that's been overnight. We checked out of the camp site at 10 but we couldn't get out of the camp site until about an hour later. There was a triathlon going on in Devonport and the road outside the site was being used for t...