Day 6 Albury to Melbourne

Got up this morning to the sound of rain on the roof. It appeared to easy through the morning and when we left it was heavy looking but not raining. Robyn and I had not brought our wet weather liners because we had left them with Ben by mistake on our last visit to Brisbane. He mailed them to Jeff in Albury so the first day we had them we needed them. The rain started about 10 minutes out of Albury. It drizzled most of the way but then it got really heavy fortunately a service station with a Maccas attached appeared. We wheeled in fuelled the bike only then did I realised it was a storm with lighting and all. We all agreed that hot chocolate would be a good idea. Looking like drowned rats Kerry and Robyn ordered. "Would you have that here or take away?" Kerry and Robyn lost it. We hung all our wet gear all over the play ground.

Logan and Andrew dropped Deanne, Shelby and Joel at the airport and were at Adam and Bec Carey's by the time we arrived. We had a cuppa and a yarn. Headed for the harbour about 4.45. After a small detour we found the harbour and joined the queue for the ferry. Loading went very smoothly. They have a tie down system that is a continuous strap with loops that secure over the handle bars ends and a ratchet strap type tie down each side that hooks to tie down points on the deck. You just need to park with your handle bar ends over these points. On Warren's the strap rubbed on his paint work so their blokes tying it down asked for a glove which they put between the strap and the bike. Robyn in the car joined us on board a short while later as the car did not get to jump the queue like we on the bikes did.

The cabins are snug four of us in each we had a girl cabin and a boys cabin. The boys went in took off their boots and start to settle in. Soon there was a knock on the door. It was a crew member. "Is everything OK here. Just that the fire alarm went off in this room." Other than that it we a nice evening with friends. As we came out of the harbour it got a little rough causing us to stager a little. It was nice to be rocked to sleep.