had a couple of sleepless nights in that stupid 12bed dorm in hobart to be greeted by our lovely double room with tv in melbourne! now that was nice. except from being next door to the lift which was noisy throught the night, but you cant have everything. we had a turbulent flight from hobart because of the strong winds, but the pilots did a good job. the plane was full of fire fighters off to help with the bush fires. they are still burning! you cant even imagi...

today we were supposed to go to wilsons promontary on the way to melbourne but it got set on fire and we had to do a huge detour to get to melbourne ok. its a shame we missed it but at least we were safe. the air in melbourne was really smokey because of the fires, but it made a lush red sunset. we met up with the people from the bus and everyone turned up on the beach for a relax and we had nice meal together. it was a really good night. the next day we just...