Day 1-Travel, Canberra to Colac Colac

Our first day of the 1-3-1 involves travel. We assembled at Fairbairn, ESA Headquarters at 10:30 to get underway.  There was the briefing at 10:45 and we were on the road just after 11:00. 
Not much happened on the travels.
We reached Gundagai just after 13:00 and a group of us ended up at the pub for lunch. An hour taken for lunch then back on the road by 14:00, arriving at the Colac Colac Caravan Park by 17:00.
Our accomodation at the Caravan park was individual tents under a large marquee and discovered in our briefing at 17:45 it would only be for 1 night and were due to move on from the Walwa fire to the Longwood Berry's Lane fire, near Alexandra, about another 3.5-4 hours down the road.
Dinner was at Corryong at 18:10, where we inundated the pub for dinner, overwhelming the staff with the extra 30 odd mouths to feed. We weren't able to order before 19:00, and we didn't get our dinner until about 20:20, with all the meals coming out 6 or 8 at a time.
After dinner we headed back to the camp site by 21:30 turning in by 22:00.Read more