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This follow-on from a previous post, Spirit of Tasmania, is a brief photo essay of
my drive Northeast up the Hume Highway to the border town of Albury. The Hume is a dual highway
from Melbourne to Sydney that skirts the western edge of the Great Dividing Range over fairly flat terrain.
If you've been following our news you'll know that Victoria has been sweltering in a heatwave and deluged in rain
since mid December, temperatures reaching 43'C (109.4'F) at Wangaratta where I spent Xmas and New Year's with family.
1.
At Port Melbourne I was among the first cars to drive off the ferry. It was 6:30PM and it's a 180 mile drive
to Wangaratta so I topped up with fuel and headed out of Melbourne via the Western Ring Road to pick up the M80.
2.
Somewhere near Kilmore I pulled off the highway into a shaded thicket
to have tea. A semi trailer rolled by with a John Deere earth mover on its tray.
3.
It was a pleasant place to eat and I took some shots for the record.
Perched in the tree tops watching over all this was an Eastern Rosella Parrot
4.
Some 3,000 semi trailers travel between Melbourne and Sydney nightly
and a strictly enforced maximum speed limit of 110kmph (67mph) applies.
5.
In the breaking dawn the arms of the Hume reach northeast towards Sydney!
6.
After a peaceful night in the car, it's Breakfast, and if I am addicted to anything it's coffee - but I have a feeling that I'm being WATCHED!
7.
It beats me as to how these cuddly little guys manage to sleep in a gum tree - that's one thing I've yet to try!
8.
WANGARATTA! - I think that one of the hardest things to photograph is a township;
impossible to capture in a single shot but taken from the roundabout at the end of
the mainstreet may give some idea as to the character of this tidy little city.
9.
The Albury Railway Station is right on the border of VIC and NSW where on journeying
from Sydney to Melbourne author Mark Twain had to change trains at 3:00AM in the morning.
At that time the Victorian and New South Wales Railway guages, would you believe, were of different widths!
10.
The Albury railway station platform was said to be the longest in Australia,
but actually Melbourne's old Spencer Street platform was and still is the longer.
11.
my drive Northeast up the Hume Highway to the border town of Albury. The Hume is a dual highway
from Melbourne to Sydney that skirts the western edge of the Great Dividing Range over fairly flat terrain.
If you've been following our news you'll know that Victoria has been sweltering in a heatwave and deluged in rain
since mid December, temperatures reaching 43'C (109.4'F) at Wangaratta where I spent Xmas and New Year's with family.
1.
At Port Melbourne I was among the first cars to drive off the ferry. It was 6:30PM and it's a 180 mile drive
to Wangaratta so I topped up with fuel and headed out of Melbourne via the Western Ring Road to pick up the M80.
2.
Somewhere near Kilmore I pulled off the highway into a shaded thicket
to have tea. A semi trailer rolled by with a John Deere earth mover on its tray.
3.
It was a pleasant place to eat and I took some shots for the record.
Perched in the tree tops watching over all this was an Eastern Rosella Parrot
4.
Some 3,000 semi trailers travel between Melbourne and Sydney nightly
and a strictly enforced maximum speed limit of 110kmph (67mph) applies.
5.
In the breaking dawn the arms of the Hume reach northeast towards Sydney!
6.
After a peaceful night in the car, it's Breakfast, and if I am addicted to anything it's coffee - but I have a feeling that I'm being WATCHED!
7.
It beats me as to how these cuddly little guys manage to sleep in a gum tree - that's one thing I've yet to try!
8.
WANGARATTA! - I think that one of the hardest things to photograph is a township;
impossible to capture in a single shot but taken from the roundabout at the end of
the mainstreet may give some idea as to the character of this tidy little city.
9.
The Albury Railway Station is right on the border of VIC and NSW where on journeying
from Sydney to Melbourne author Mark Twain had to change trains at 3:00AM in the morning.
At that time the Victorian and New South Wales Railway guages, would you believe, were of different widths!
10.
The Albury railway station platform was said to be the longest in Australia,
but actually Melbourne's old Spencer Street platform was and still is the longer.
11.
... Where did you dig up this one ... I thought it was long since dead and buried over a year ago! But thanks for exhuming it at this time when I have just returned from another visit to Tasmania. 
for such an act! 
... Friday a ME DAY Whoop! pee !
please take into account that I don't have the luxury of aircon as most drivers these days do - the Pintara like me is somewhat of an antique, yet I love it! 
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