Spirit of Tasmania

Wednesday 17th April 2013 - today is the day to we sail to Tasmania on the "Spirit of Tasmania" - we did not sail until 7.30pm - but we had to go to the storage area where we collected the caravan by 4.30pm - drove to Port Melbourne. It was 4.50pm as we drove to our first security check where the vehicle and caravan was examined by quarantine officers and then asked to drive forward where we were instructed to drive into one of the four lanes - they had caravans & trailers & campervans in one line, 4 wheel drives in another lane and cars in two lanes. We did not park up until 6.50pm, walked up to our cabin, settled into the bar at approx 7.10pm with a chardonay & shiraz in hand waited for the ship to leave the dock. We enjoyed the journey over the Bass Strait while sleeping, as we were last on, we were first off at 6.30am.