I didn't sleep well - the excitement or the anticipation of an early alarm played havoc with my sleep clock - so we finally stopped fighting it at 0430, had a cup of tea and I turned the alarm off. We still had loads of time to shower and have more tea and toast before leaving at 5.45am and even then we arrived before Phil. having said our good-mornings we followed him back to the river bank where we left off last night - there had been a heavy dew overnight, th...

We arrived in Latrobe at approximately 1300 hours and drove immediately to the visitor centre to book a platypus tour - this is marketed as the Platypus capital and why I put it on our itinerary. We found that they did evening and morning tours but we were advised that the morning was the best - so that's what we booked - it's a 6am start and we meet back at the visitor centre tomorrow morning. We then had an iced coffee at the cafe before making our way to Sher...