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Sunday, 15 August 2004<br />It's been a very long day, that consisted of a eight hundred kilometer drive, taking nine hours to complete.<br />The Princes Highway starts a few suburbs from the centre of Melbourne and I joined it on the outskirts of Dandenong. Traveling towards the east, the road took me through many towns I have already worked in, Warragal, Morwell, Traralgon, Sale and Bairnsdale. Some of these have been visited this year.<br />It was a good run out of Victoria. Mostly blue sky's with some scattered clouds that bought patches of rain.

Moolymook - Canberra - Lockhart 2004

Colin Ewington
2006-03-16 09:48:04

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Sunday, 15 August 2004
It's been a very long day, that consisted of a eight hundred kilometer drive, taking nine hours to complete.
The Princes Highway starts a few suburbs from the centre of Melbourne and I joined it on the outskirts of Dandenong. Traveling towards the east, the road took me through many towns I have already worked in, Warragal, Morwell, Traralgon, Sale and Bairnsdale. Some of these have been visited this year.
It was a good run out of Victoria. Mostly blue sky's with some scattered clouds that bought patches of rain.

It was around two o'clock in the afternoon when I made my first stop at the Gippsland town of Cann River. Half an hour later I crossed into New South Wales. The weather got worst after I crossed the border.
This part of the Princes Highway has many bends. In general the traffic had been good but every now and again I would catch up with very slow vehicles doing sixty kilometers an hour when they should have been doing one hundred kilometer an hour. It was a bit hard on the patients. Each time I was lucky and managed to get around them, leaving the growing convoy behind.
Eden is a fair size coastal town which I'm sure is worth exploring but with still plenty of distance left on my journey I could not spare the time.

When I reached Batemans Bay I noticed a lot of blackened trees. I assume the authorities have been burning the area in an attempt to lessen the threat of bush fires in the summer. There is still a few months before the hot winds arrive but being prepared this early is pretty responsible.

It was five-thirty when I left the Princes Highway and drove one kilometer towards the small town of Mollymook. I had been on the road since eight-thirty that morning.
At least two years have elapsed since I have worked here and I needed the local road directory to or remind me where the motel was.

The Seaspray Motel overlooks the local beach. I got my ...