It is a long way back to Melbourne but we are in a hurry to get there so that we can jump on a ferry and maximise our time in Tasmania. Which meant there was a lot of driving to be done today, however we did allow ourselves a couple of hours for the Naracoorte caves. During the first tour of Alexandra cave I impressed myself with my recently found knowledge of cave formations as I was able to identify stalagtites and mites, collumns and shawls. It was just as well really as the tour guide was not the most informative. However, it was on our second cave tour that we were to discover why this place has world heritage listing. The Victoria fossil cave was fascinating and we could see first hand the excavation site for fossils of weird and wonderful Australian dinosaur like creatures. The visitor centre had life size replicas of these now extinct mega fauna. Of course they all have very technical dinosaur-esque names but I can’t remember those. The two that left an impression on me were the oversized wombat dinosaur and the squashed headed koalaroo!
Another few hundred kms of hot sticky driving and we have now crossed the border back into Victoria so at least we are now in the right state to catch our ferry.