Melbourne - Phillip Island

Before we left Echuca on Tuesday we went down to check out the height of the Murray again, to find a large gum tree had fallen into the river right across a jetty where they usually tie up a paddle steamer, lucky it was further down the river. The river was up a few feet on what it had been the day before, they were only expecting it to flood a couple of local farms and that the town would be ok when it reached it's peak on Wednesday.
We arrived at Craigiburn after an uneventful trip and settled in for a couple of days. Wednesday Bazza had my breakfast ready by 6.30am in anticipation of our trip across the outer Melbourne suburbs to Box Hill, where I was to see the specialist. We did not have to leave until 8.30am to get there well and truly by my appointment time of 10am. Looks like I will be having my op in Hobart as Mr Bedi was of the same opinion as the Hobart guy and that is to fuse the joint, as the alignment of my ankle bones are not straight enough for an ankle replacement to last. It was worth getting the second opinion as he made me feel more confident of having it fused sometime in the future.
Today we left Craigiburn and travelled further south to Phillip Island, the day was blustery with a few heavy showers of rain and cold ! After setting up at the caravan park we went out to the Nobbies where you can view the seals on a good day, it was so windy that I had trouble standing still to take the photo, and looking out to Bass Straight made our stomachs churn thinking it maybe a rough trip across Sunday night ! Before heading back to the van we set off to find the Grand Prix Circuit and check it out, as the V8's had been racing there last weekend. We will stay here until Sunday then it's just a couple hours back to Melbourne to catch the ferry.