We have moved so much stuff from the bus to the motel over the four days and nights, that it is easiest to bring the bus around. Leonie at the Silver Bream is fine with parking in the wide driveway.
We have decided that we have bent the budget about as far as we should. And Maz has had enough of the winding climbing roads - and so have I. It makes for hard driving with eight tons (tonnes?) to manage.
We had intended to go north up the coast and stop in at Millingandi, but somewhere we need to cross the Great Dividing Range - Brown Mountain, Cooma etc; Batemans Bay, Canberra; Kangaroo Valley, Mossvale; too far, too hard for now... So it will be west and home - and not over Mount Hotham!
About 9:30 we are breakfasted, packed up, car hooked up, and away. Coffee at Cann River, again, then on via the Princes Highway. We have not actually spent much time on this Highway with all the detours to the coast.
Modest aim for the day is Traralgon, vis Bairnsdale, Sale etc. As it happens the Gippsland Model Engineering Society (at Traralgon) has a run day on their miniature railway tomorrow.
Into Traralgon about 3PM and find the track. One of the members is there, Graeme, so we have a look around, then find a CP - Big4 for the night, getting our discount... Dine on what we have and eventually retire. It is noisy, 100m from the highway, 200 the real railway track and on the airport boundary. All in spitting distance!
