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While the fires continue to rage in Victoria I’m thankful at how fortunate we were not to have timed our trip slightly differently – almost every area of Victoria we explored has been affected by bushfire to a greater or lesser degree: the Dandenong ranges, the Grampians, Wilson’s Promontory, the Yarra Valley, Ballarat, Bacchas Marsh, Dunkeld, Sale, and along the Hume and Newell highways that we took out of Victoria to return to Tamworth for Australia Day.

There a doubtless many such long-shot “it could have been us” stories out there, but sadly it doesn’t affect the huge loss of life that has occured.

We’re currently back in Tamworth looking at a 4 wheel drive that’ll take us North off the track in the Northern Territory and beyond.

Just before that we’d been hanging in Melbourne for a month, taking our time (perhaps too much time) to explore the big city of little alleyways over Christmas and New Years. We’ll write Melbourne up soon, but in the meantime we’ve uploaded new articles for the semi-demolished Cape St. George Lighthouse in the JBT, Booderee National Park also in the Jervis Bay Territory and a postcard to Ryan from Newcastle.