We woke to rain.

Our last morning in Melbourne and it was raining, not a great deal but enough to be annoying while we were packing up. We were heading to the Ballarat area which meant driving from one side of Melbourne to the other and then some.

About to crest West Gate Bridge, we used to drive over this regularly when we lived on the west side and worked in Melbourne city.

It was still slightly raining and thankfully cool.

We weren't real sure of where we were headed and later we wanted to pull off for a coffee and sort out the caravan park that suited us. I had seen signs suggesting to "take a 15 minute power nap if tired" good idea but there were no rest areas to pull over. Finally we had to take an exit into a small township to have our coffee and set a route for our next stop.

Arriving in Creswick which is about twenty minutes from Ballarat, great reviews on this park but we were lucky to get a park as there are two large groups  booked in for the weekend but he fitted us in. We are up the back, backed onto and over looking the lake.

We discovered this afternoon that we had run out of water, bit surprising but we had not connected to mains water all the way down, but as the tank was empty, Warren took the opportunity to do some maintenance on it.

While we are coming to terms with daylight saving it is rather nice to eat outside and stay out until 8 pm or so, trouble is the waking up later in the mornings but cant have it both ways.

Stormy weather

Yesterday when we went to Redcliffe, Warren was wearing shorts and said when he got out of the car that he should have worn long pants as it was a bit cool. At the time it was cloudy.

Sun was shining after we had lunch and it was very pleasant. Drove home in sunshine and two hours later, there was no sun and on the news there was talk of thunderstorms in Sydney. Overcast here and then the rain started. Oh my, it was heavy.

Probably hard to see but the driveway had about an inch of water on it. We had been sitting outside but the rain started to be blown in under the patio.

Water is streaming off the annex of the caravan and running down the post, already tere is puddles on the grass. Twenty minutes after this the rain had stopped and the sun was out!