Strathbogie

Today is my last day here in Australia before I go to New Zealand. As always we went up early to go to the stable. It’s supposed to be over 40 degrees today so everyone was really trying to get ready as fast as possible. Luckily we had just a few jogging horses and only one horse was going fast today, Hank. He is probably the best horse they have in the stable at the moment. Really nice pacer.
After all horses have been training we were cleaning up and finishing the last stuff that needed to be done and then we went home at 10.30 already. At that point it was already 32 degrees and you could really feel, already in the morning, that’s it’s going to be a extremely hot day today.
So we went home, took a shower, I was washing my clothes that I had on in the stable, because I don’t want to risk to get problems to come in to New Zealand.
We were eating lunch together and then everyone took a nab. 🙈
It’s insane how hot it is outside 😳
We I went out to pick up my wash I was thinking I gonna burn straight away. It’s impossible to walk outside without shoes on because your feet’s are burning away when they touch the ground.
Around 14.30 we left to the train station. My train was supposed to go 14.55. But there was no train coming.. not even one 😳
At 15.20 I got really nervous because I really don’t want to miss my fly. I went to a small shop close to the train station and they called the next bigger train station for me, to ask when the train is coming. Well there are no trains going today at all, because it is to hot, it’s a bus coming instead, but that one was already leaving like 10 min before. At that point I got very nervous because I didn’t really know what to do. So I called Marika, because I knew they are going to Melton to the race today and that the track is closed to Melbourne. So I was hoping they could drop me off somewhere on the way so I could take a taxi to the airport. She said she gonna ask Colleen to look it up, how we can do it best and then call me back.
In the end Colleen, David’s wife, was picking me up and driving me all the way to the airport. I was so thankful that she was doing this for me, because I am not sure I I would have make it in time otherwise.
When I jump into the car she said, did you notice how warm it actually is? I was just like no, but it’s extremely warm. Well we had 46 degrees at that point! 😳🥵
This is really insane. It’s the hottest day in over 5 years in this part of Australia. And of coarse exactly when I am here for just 5 days 🙈
On the way to the airport it was actually at one point 47 degrees.
It took us a little bit longer then an hour to come to the airport.
Shortly before Melbourne, we were driving up a hill and when we came to the top you could see, that the weather was chancing. In around 5 minutes the temperature was dropping from 46 degrees to just 29 degrees. Colleen told me, that this is happening sometimes in Victoria when a storm is coming in from the ocean.
So when she dropped me off at the airport it was really nice temperature outside. 😉
We arrived at the airport at 17.00, me fly was supposed to leave at 18.20. So I was a little bit late, but Colleen said, I would never have make it in time if I would have taken the bus.
It was going very fast to check in and to pass the security control so I was already at my gate at 17.20!
The fly was in the end a little bit delayed so we took off at 19.00 instead.
The first 30-40 min was really ruff due to the bad weather outside but then everything was fine and 3 hours late, actually on time (0.00 local time) we arrived in Wellington.
The boarder Controls was going very fast this time so I was leaving the airport already at 0.30, jumped into a taxi to my hotel and went straight to bed.😉Read more