Wednesday 29th February, Second day in Nelson

Looks like the ants just couldn't take it and decided it was time to call a retreat and bugger off home. Lin's up early and out the bed (well, off the floor), talking to Roxanne and Dan on the computer just as I'm coming too. Cor, that didn't half make life confusing, didn't know were the hell I was, all I could hear was Roxanne's and Lin's voice.

Right, Off I go and make myself a coffee and try and wake myself up. It was really good to talk to Roxanne and she was on for nearly an hour, now Billee's on so I have a nice chat with her. Doing really well that kid and me hearts bursting with pride.  Kouy is still sorting her Internet out, but we get a funny email from her that makes us laugh.

Kinda makes me sad all day and I miss all the kids, Kouy, Roxanne, Billee, Steven, Jo and Ollie lots. Bugger this, I'm sounding like a right sad old git, so I'm gonna leave this alone.

Fed, watered, showered and shaved it's off into town to have a proper look round. Fair sized town this and we're in there most of the day. Finally got me haircut, strangely, now me helmets lose and wobbles a bit, but me hat still fits, figure that one out. Seems like this is the cheapest town we've hit so far so we stock up on essentials like baby powder, (hot and sweaty in places you don't want to know) batteries, shower gel, and spare gas refills, got eight of them now, If they go up while we're on the move, me arse is toast. Right, shopping done, we're off back home and its not long before teas underway. It don't take long to knock back a spag bol when yer hungry and we're soon left with just the washing up.

Back to the tent for a read and catch up with the bloggy thing. Bugger me, the sodding ants are back for revenge. Lin doe's the usual tits up into the sealed tent, but I wanna catch up with things and ain't having none of it, so for the next hour, it;s tap, tap, whack, whack, tap, tap, whack, whack. These blighters are really up for it and don't go down without a fight, as soon as they spot ya, they rear up on their hind legs and start snapping their pincers and one clump, just don't do it. Well its me or them and theres more of them, so I follow Lin's lead and head for the hills.  Just dozing off when this really weird noise starts, sounds like a sort of a mixture of bad sex and the son of Frankenstein. I get the nudge in the ribs, grab a torch and off I go, (at least the ants have gone) can't see a sodding thing, so back to bed, (or the floor) and left to wonder what the hell it was.

Ok, Just to explain, fruit from Victoria is not allowed outside of their state as they have fruit fly problem, so all travellers have to put any fruit / meats or veg they have in their cars/bikes or on them in the bin just before the state border.  You can however bring fruit into Victoria from other states, but you cannot take it out regardless of where you bought it or got it from !!!  hence, this sign at the road side just before the Victoria state/Southern Australia state borderline.