After a chilly night where the mercury dropped to 12 degrees we got ready to drive to Melbourne. The first 20 km was unpaved and we saw some of the nice ‘tree ferns’ we have seen any times already but now we made some pictures.
After that we suddenly got to a piece of forest that was affected by the forest fires of a few weeks ago, which was very impressive. The ground was grey, and basically only two bigger plants more or less survived, some ‘grassy palmtree’ and the eucalyptus trees, although their leaves had turned brown like it was fall, but we have seen in other places where the eucalyptus trees with black barks where growing again.
Driving up to Melbourne was pretty nice. The skyline seems nicer then the average skyline of big cities. We first stopped at a coffee shop to get a new seal for the moka pot and then headed for the art gallery, which just as in Adelaide was free, although they had a few paid exhibitions, but there was plenty to see anyway, including some Dutch masters. Also parking in the center was surprisingly cheap.
We decided to drive a bit longer and stay at a camp site on a scouting terrain and not go to one of the big commercial chains (that are compared to European prices actually pretty reasonably priced).
A friendly ranger welcomed us and showed us where we could find evening sun or morning sun, we opted for morning sun as the predictions for the night where pretty chilly again.
Before we put up the tent we had a walk as was an echidna was spotted, but we did not find it. We did however see our first big mob of Kangaroos.
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