On the Way Again

Saturday, 29th May

Following our return to Tasmania on the 21st May, my mother’s passing on the 22nd and her funeral on the 27th May, this morning we once again said goodbye to the family before we flew from Hobart to Melbourne on the 9.15 am flight. We didn’t see much on the flight, not only because we weren’t sitting at a window seat, but because it was cloudy the whole way! Melbourne was very overcast when we arrived. The car parking people picked us up from the terminal and transported us to their office at Tullamarine where the Pajero was waiting for us. We considered $90 for 8 days ofsecure, undercover parking was very reasonable.

We decided to return to St Arnaud via the Calder Highway and Tomtom didn’t have any problems getting us on track. By the time we had reached the Macedon region, the weather had closed in, was very murky and wet. It rained almost all the way to St Arnaud.

A very lonely Cat was overjoyed to see us return and then promptly fell asleep again. The caravan had survived without any problems and the frozen food in the freezer was still solid. The caretaker was very kind and only charged us $2.75 for each night we left the van onsite – we were very happy with this as the power was still connected. St Arnaud has obviously had a great deal of rain during the last week as the ground is very squishy!

Tomorrow we hope to be in Mildura shortly after lunch.