To Melbourne in early January
We have come to Melbourne for a couple of weeks. We left home at 0635 as planned . The drive up was 'interesting' with massive numbers of road maggots - wide white things that crawl slowly up the road - from Bairnsdale to about Dandenong. We did discuss how people in the inner areas parked these behemoths given that many properties don't even have an off-road car park. Noting there they stopped being seen I think the answer must be that if you live in the inner areas you avoid the larvae. We passed through Bairnsdale at about 0900 hrs and noted the temperature was 35C. We were expecting hot but that was a tad earlier that we had thought. It dropped temporarily to 33C a bit later in the drive. I was able to get a photo of the painted water tanks just (about 1.3 km( East of Stratford). The temperature climbed slowly as we went along, with the highest I saw being 39C somewhere around Pakenham. When we got into our apartment (1240hrs) th...