We spent our last day in Tasmania driving around the outskirts of Devonport, admiring the farmland and walking along the beach at Shearwater. It was an extra low tide with a wide sandy beach – we smiled at the big distance between the life savers on the sand and those few in swimming. The shells growing in abundance on rocks looked like baby mussels. We went back into town and had a last look at Devonport - all done, tick it off. We did enjoy our time in Tassie.
We had our early start yesterday, leaving the caravan park and queueing at the Devonport wharf to catch the 9am sailing for Melbourne. There were other motor homes, caravans, cars and motor bikes waiting to board. It was another smooth nine hour trip, made pleasant by the company of two couples we met and sat with – one from Victoria, the other from Queensland. There were lots of swapping of stories of trips taken and things seen.
Melbourne was bathed in sunlight when we arrived at 6pm – it had been a 35C degree day there and it was still warm, many people were out along the waterfront making the
The lifesavers are way back there behind Dougmost of the weather. We drove off the boat, found our way through Melbourne traffic and booked into the Coburg caravan park once more.
After a rather sleepless hot night, we woke to a cooler, grey day and even a few spots of rain which didn’t last long. We were going to drive down the western side of Port Phillip Bay and then get the ferry across to the Mornington Peninsular. With the weather being as it was and visibility not that crash hot, we decided we’d just drive down the eastern side to the Peninsular.
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