A Melbourne trip: day 5

 We packed up and were outathere by 0800 hours.  Unfortunately, as I drove off a warning light with a depiction of a tyre appeared.  On consulting the manual, which - unlike that for our previous Jetta - is useful, it was suggesting low tyre and a visit to a dealer.  Fortunately there was a Mazda Dealer in South Melbourne so we visited there.  The reception folk realised - after a very little guidance - that we had an urgent issue and investigated the issue returning the car, but not the nail that had stuck in the front tyre, before 10 am.  So we set off again.

This began by visiting a typically confusing intersection to get on to the M1.  I am sure Vic Roads recruit their traffic designers from psychotic rodents that have failed maze running.

Going through the Domain Tunnel was the usual slot-car racing experience (with bonus b-double).  The green lights running down the side of the tunnel were new!
Heading out, Frances took over the right hand seat at Gumbaya World so I took over photographic duties.  A complex of pylons suggested we were closing in on the Latrobe Valley.
I couldn't get an image of the cooling towers at Morwell which were belching out steam.  So the next is illustrating the flat country heading towards Sale.  Also an irrigation line for a dairy farm.
I had thought the road works on the highway had finished, but I had just misremembered where they were!  We had missed this joy by going to Holey Plains on the way out.


I couldn't get a clear shot the Wellington Shire motto "Middle of everywhere".  It is in the white quadrant of this sign thanking us for visiting Stratford.
Sunset seen from in front of the fire once we retuned to Mallacoota.
The next morning was devoted (partially) to removing a few kgs of WTP topsoil from the car.
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