From experiencing the hottest day in Melbourne’s history to the coldest April temperature in 60 years, we've had enough of Victoria’s crazy weather and are about to head north with all the other grey nomads who flee the southern states for temperatures kinder on their thinner blood. For three weeks we were relief managing the caravan park in Rutherglen. One of the new skills I developed was how to evict bogong moths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogong_moth from the ladies amenities. They are lovely moths, as moths go, but VERY BIG - about 10cm long. The night the April rains came in our first week, half a dozen lay dazed and confused on the toilet block floor. They are so substantial they look more like animals than insects and at first I thought I'd just quietly walk around them
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