Shortly before the border the speed limit goes down to 100km/h which seems unnecessary. At 11:00am (VIC time) in Nhill we swapped drivers over again, and then made it to Horsham at 12:00pm in time for lunch again. This time we went to one of the local bakeries, where they had the world record for biggest vanilla slice, I just settled for a single serve.
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| Guessing the previous record was 677.075 kilograms. |
We left Horsham at 12:30pm (VIC time) again and stopped for a driver change and the first refuel at Ararat an hour later. Sadly my small fuel tank couldn't get all the way back to Melbourne, and going further to Ballarat would have been a bit risky. I made it 517 kilometres with 35 litres of fuel used, with maybe 5% left on the fuel tank indicator.
Around about Ararat we finally got to return to 110/km again, through to Melton for the final driver change at 3:15pm (VIC time). I missed the turn off at Ballarat Road since I wasn't paying attention, but getting off at the next exit didn't add much time. We got stuck in traffic trying to get through Parkville and onto the Eastern freeway forever, then we were cruising for about three minutes before hitting a big traffic jam due to a two car accident near the Doncaster Road exit - there's no way I could drive to work every day like that without going insane. At last we made it home by 5:00pm (VIC time), just in time to get ready for work again...
If I'd had more time in Adelaide I would have gone to:
- Kangaroo Island
- Victor Harbor
- Hahndorf
- Mt Lofty
- Glenelg and Magic Mountain
- Port Adelaide (maybe)
- Wine tasting in Barossa Valley (maybe not)
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