Saturday 18th November 2017
We did a bit of shopping for camping gear at Albury and then headed on ur way to Melbourne. Only 3.5 hours to travel today. We arrived at the Port of Melbourne at about 4pm just in time for a thunderstorm. We sat out the rain in the car and headed to the boat at about 6.46pm. The boat was similar to the one we caught to Corsica, France a few years ago. We met Ali, Paul, Emma and Kate for dinner on the boat. It was great to see them and they had many adventure stories to share with us. I am sure we will hear many more before the holiday is over. DB and I are in single sex 4 bed share rooms, so we headed off to bed separately. Very unusual for us. DB was unlucky enough to have 3 other men in his room including a couple of snorers so he didn’t get much sleep at all. I was very fortunate to have the 4 bed room all to myself, so managed about 4 hours sleep. The boat was a bit rockin’ and rollin’ from about 4am. We were woken by an announcement at 5.45am and were called to go to our car at 6.30am. We arrived to a lovely day in Devonport, Tasmania.