Winter Break 2023- Melbourne and Great Ocean Road
This year the girls winter break began on 23 June. They get three weeks off, but we only took one to go on a family trip. We left early on Saturday morning for the long drive down to Melbourne. Without stopping it would take about 7 hours to get there. We of course needed to make multiple stops, because that is just too long to for us to drive without making stops. Our first stop was in Holbrook, a small town in New South Wales. We stopped here because they randomly have a full sized submarine in a park there. There is the original above water line superstructure of the Oberon Class submarine HMAS OTWAY just sitting on the ground. I thought maybe we'd be able to go in it. But people are not able to go inside, though you could walk on the top of it. I forgot to get a good picture of it. This is the best I have of it: We finally made it to Melbourne that evening. We took a walk out in the city and went out for dinner. We found a nice Japanese ramen place and had excellent ag