Day 1 - Drive to Melbourne

Left Balgowlah in the coolness at 7:00 am for the 870 Km drive to Melbourne via the M31 and arrived at 4:30pm in "hell" temperature 42 degrees "C" only stopping for fuel and some lunch along the way. Thank God we purchased a portable fridge with a Battery to keep our provisions and water (beer and Jan's wine) cool and it seems to be working well. 

The fridge

The M31 road into Melbourne is dead boring and very dry. When we came down for Around the Bay in a Day the countryside was very green now it's a Bush Fire waiting to happen.

   

Food stop at Gundagai. 

For some amusement Jan read me a book which is (by proxy) only the second book I have read in my life. Feel free to guess the first but the second definitely kept me from running off the road.

Its dry down here