250kms

March 6^th

Enjoyed a sleep-in before chatting for nearly 2 hours to people camped in the next campground to ours. They had a group of 3 tents / vans and were about 50 metres from us….didn’t hear them at all! They were admiring our Carry Me Camper and plied Jon with heaps of questions then offered us a tour of their set-ups. One has something similar to ours…we just have the poorer cousin. Nice folks though and they gave us lots of survival tips….from how to put out fires, to using Vicks to stop mozzie bites stinging, to how to cook a lamb roast in the camp oven. Very helpful! Started our 2 hours run into Melbourne around 1pm…ahhh….this is holiday life after all, can’t rush things! Big Italian lunch at Traralgon, which I hoped would keep us full all the way thru til bedtime. Nearly – just had Vegemite sandwiches for dinner! Caught up with our friends Sean and Emma on the east side of town and enjoyed afternoon tea with them and picked up our mail. Then, the treacherous journey into the city during peak hour. Saw 1 accident but my excellent driver – helped out by Navigator 1 (me) and Nav 2 (Ms. Sat Nav) – got us to our caravan park in 1 piece. We are one in a big tin of sardines here for the night, 9km north of the city. We’re in the ‘elite’ part of the park I think, surrounded by tourists in big motor homes and Winnebago’s everywhere. My guess is more than half of them will be tussling with us tomorrow as we get onto the ferry to Tasmania. Hope that alarm goes off in the morning!