An itchy night in Wagga Wagga

Friday, 19th March - as this picture will testify, the tent worked and was fairly easy to set up too! Unfortunately for us, as we put it up about a million mosquitos decided to come out for an evening snack and Larna copped about 15 bites on each leg. Itchy bites aside, we got a fairly decent night's sleep (a 5 out of 10) in the tent amid the rumble and roar of the massive trucks passing on the highway next to our camp site and that feeling of vulnerability you have knowing that only a flimsy piece of fabric seperates you from any falling object. We left at about 8.30am, stopping for breakfast at a service station along the highway and a few hours later, at the little town of Wangaratta with its charming Victorian buildings.

We crossed over the state border into Victoria as we passed through the towns of Albury (NSW) and Wadonga (Victoria). The traffic picked up as we approached Melbourne airport (our drop off destination for the hire car), and it was bumper to bumper as the "Manhattan" skyline of the CBD came into view. Larna remarked that we looked like two homeless people as we unpacked all our belongings (backpacks, boxes and bits and pieces) onto two trolleys, and with Violet trotting alongside, wheeled them out to wait for Frank and Liz to pick us up! A lot of people gave Violet and us a quizzical look, wondering no doubt how we got her onto the plane!